• anton
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    1 day ago

    Mixed up fission and fusion there, they sound so similar in English.
    The comment talks about fusion.

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        It does in modern designs, the first time it happened was in 1952.

        To quote Wikipedia:

        The first thermonuclear weapon detonation, where the vast majority of the yield comes from fusion, was the 1952 Ivy Mike test of a liquid deuterium-fusing device.

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fusion