31. Practitioners favored the terms nuclear and thermonuclear , respectively. 32. On 24 August 1968 France detonated its first thermonuclear weapon codenamed megaton blast. 33. Once Artsimovich was asked when the first thermonuclear reactor would start its work. 34. A two stage thermonuclear bomb that had a much more powerful trigger ". 35. The crater was created on July 6, 1962 by a thermonuclear explosion. 36. Britain never deployed a true thermonuclear weapon of wholly home-grown design. 37. Thermonuclear heat would create a large underground cavern and simultaneously liquefy the oil.38. The ball of frozen deuterium would fuel thermonuclear -powered Project Orion engines. 39. It subsequently served as the primary in numerous thermonuclear devices during the 1950s. 40. By a thermonuclear process, helium atoms will fuse to become carbon and oxygen.