In modern nuclear weapons, conventional explosives set off a fission reaction—the splitting of big atoms—whose intensity then ignites a fusion reaction that combines light atoms.
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Sarah Scoles,
Scientific American,
20 Oct. 2026
Obituaries for nuclear weapons simply misapprehend the role these arms have played since 1945.
Hisamatsu, who is also UniJapan’s executive director, wants those three arms working more closely together and offering more to filmmakers and producers.
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Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
26 Oct. 2026
When the Lebanese Civil War ended in 1990, a wall text informs, militias sold off weapons, many of which found their way to the Balkans; the Yugoslav Wars, then, were fought partly with Lebanese arms.
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