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If dragons are nukes, Vhagar is an H-bomb while everyone else still has lesser A-bombs.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
20 June 2026 Attempts to find work elsewhere were blocked at every turn, despite support from multiple Nobel laureates, Groves and even H-bomb enthusiast Edward Teller.—
Kc Cole,
Smithsonian Magazine,
8 Mar. 2024 The specter of trauma has long hung over Godzilla, a creature unearthed from slumber by H-bomb testing in the 1954 original.—
Esther Zuckerman,
New York Times,
26 Jan. 2024 By using fusion to power a thermonuclear reaction, H-bomb explosions can be massively more powerful than fission reactions, like that in Gadget.—
Kelsey Atherton,
Vulture,
26 July 2023 And this is the H-bomb, uh, several magnitudes more powerful than the atomic bomb.—
Quartz Staff,
Quartz,
3 Mar. 2023 If neither the publication of H-bomb secrets nor the release of the Pentagon Papers irreparably harmed national security, then what secrets gone feral will?—Foreign Affairs,
12 Feb. 2014