1.   Hydrogen bombs are thermonuclear weapons.

2.   Fusion, the joining together of atoms, is the process that powers the sun, the stars and thermonuclear weapons.

3.   He joined the staff at Los Alamos the same year, working in the theoretical division when it was producing designs for thermonuclear weapons.

4.   In essence, the tiny pellets are miniature hydrogen bombs, and their behavior is expected to simulate on a small scale the behavior of full-size thermonuclear weapons.

5.   The government supports inertial confinement fusion because the experiments shed light on the behavior of full-scale thermonuclear weapons.

6.   The joint research program is potentially controversial, because the same fundamental physics underpins the development of thermonuclear weapons.

7.   The Select Committee judges that the P.R.C. is likely to continue its work on advanced thermonuclear weapons based on the stolen U.S. design information.

8.   The stolen U.S. nuclear secrets give the P.R.C. design information on thermonuclear weapons on a par with our own.

9.   These modern thermonuclear weapons took the United States decades of effort, hundreds of millions of dollars and numerous nuclear tests to achieve.