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    1 day ago

    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