Russia pioneered the field, in which powerful magnetic fields are used to try to tame for constructive use the kind of thermonuclear fire that lights the sun.

This wasn't the city that had died in thermonuclear fire in 1999, but his mind's eye still saw those images.

One is to help perfect a fusion reactor that could harness thermonuclear fire for making electricity.

It detonated in a savage pinprick of thermonuclear fire, and he grunted.

The two ships raced onward, ripping at one another with thermonuclear fire, shedding debris, streaming atmosphere like trails of blood.

She once said she would not "weep" if America was "cleansed" of its "lib- eralism" by thermonuclear fire.

As scientists worked to perfect hydrogen bombs, they also investigated whether the thermonuclear fires might be set off by something other than atomic explosions.

Generations of scientists have dreamed of using thermonuclear fire to generate electric power in new kinds of reactors.

The life of the planet was infinitely precious, but no one could formulate a plan to save it from the sacrificial thermonuclear fire.

Brown dwarfs are essentially failed stars, lumps of matter bigger than a planet but not large enough to kindle the thermonuclear fire of a star.