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Fusion announcement was about weapons, not energy generation

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Re: Fusion announcement was about weapons, not energy generation

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TL;DR: The December 5th experiment was about proving to ourselves and our adversaries that we still understand how to build and validate nuclear weapons, despite the ban on testing.

As far as I know, computer models and simulations have been running the show for a while, that after decades of testing and modeling.