Tritium is also used as a component in the triggering mechanism in thermonuclear (fusion) weapons.

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Another possibility--the most disturbing one, actually--is that the North Koreans had been telling the truth when on May 12, just two days before South Korea detected the high levels of xenon, they announced they had created a nuclear fusion reaction, a step necessary to the building of a thermonuclear device.

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