Major breakthrough is a subjective term so it’s hard to argue that precisely, but is it a major milestone on the way to commercial fusion, or “historic” as Dr.

Major breakthrough is a subjective term so it’s hard to argue that precisely, but is it a major milestone on the way to commercial fusion, or “historic” as Dr. Kuranz says in the article? I can accept that. In 50 years, I’d guess it’ll be described in Wikipedia in such as way. Secondly I’m not sure what you mean by saying this experiment has only academic differences with a thermonuclear weapon. It seems the only similarity is they both generate a fusion reaction. The latter is essentially multiple bombs strapped together which is quite different practically.