hydrogen bomb

enormously destructive nuclear weapon based on the sudden release of atomic energy

The Teller–Ulam design is a nuclear weapon design which is used in megaton-range thermonuclear weapons, and is more colloquially referred to as "the secret of the hydrogen bomb". It is named after two of its chief contributors, Hungarian born physicist Edward Teller and Polish born mathematician Stanisław Ulam, who developed the design in 1951. The idea is thought to pertain specifically to the use of a fission bomb "trigger" placed near an amount of fusion fuel, known as "staging", and the use of "radiation implosion" to compress the fusion fuel before igniting it. There are a number of other additions and variations to this idea posited by different sources.
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Noun
1. a nuclear weapon that releases atomic energy by union of light (hydrogen) nuclei at high temperatures to form helium
(synonym) H-bomb, fusion bomb, thermonuclear bomb
(hypernym) nuclear weapon

Verb
1. attack with a hydrogen bomb
(hypernym) bombard, bomb

See thermonuclear weapon. 1/11/75

Voir arme thermonucléaire. 1/11/75

Synonyms and related words:
A-bomb, H-bomb, atomic bomb, atomic warhead, clean bomb, cobalt bomb, dirty bomb, fusion bomb, hell bomb, limited nuclear weapons, nuclear artillery, nuclear explosive, nuclear warhead, plutonium bomb, superbomb, tactical nuclear weapons, thermonuclear bomb, thermonuclear warhead