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The article talks about fusion chain reactions in hydrogen bombs, but the fusion in hydrogen bombs isn't an exponential sequence of chain reactions, it's due to
by cuspycode 9y ago
The article talks about fusion chain reactions in hydrogen bombs, but the fusion in hydrogen bombs isn't an exponential sequence of chain reactions, it's due to very high temperatures caused by fission chain reactions in the primary. Hence the term "thermonuclear".