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Nuclear explosions in the home

THE following advertisement was spotted by Mike Birch in the February issue of Radcom, published by the Radio Society of Great Britain: “Would a person with a 1 kilowatt linear [amplifier] contact me? I want to use the output to test to see if I can initiate a thermonuclear fusion reaction. The experiment is to put a tube of low pressure hydrogen in the inductor of a tuned circuit and excite it with 1 kilowatt of radio energy to ionise the hydrogen and see if it will start a fusion reaction. If it does, the tuned circuit with the tube of hydrogen will be able to…

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