hydrogen bomb - 2025 PACE NSC

Question

Note to players: Specific answer required. Imprecise answers will be rejected. The existence of this technology was accidentally revealed on an episode of Court of Current Issues by Senator Edwin Johnson. One country used an "alarm clock" design for this tech in the "Joe 4" demonstrated at Semipalatinsk. The MANIAC (0[1])I computer was (20[1])first used to help develop this tech. An early use of this technology caused a diplomatic incident involving the crew of Japan's (*) Lucky Dragon (10[1])5. (10[2]0[5])A major (10[1])milestone (10[1])for this technology occurred (0[1])with a device (0[1])nicknamed the Sausage used in Ivy Mike. (0[1])Sakharov's Third Idea was a Russian implementation of the Teller-Ulam design (0[2])for this (10[1])technology. (10[4]0[1])For 10 points, (10[1])the Castle Bravo test (10[3])demonstrated (10[1])what technology, (10[3])thousands of times more (10[1])deadly than the one used (10[4])on Hiroshima? (10[4])■END■ (10[5]0[2])

ANSWER: hydrogen bomb [or H-Bomb or neutron bomb or thermonuclear weapon or fusion weapon; prompt on nuclear bomb or super bomb; prompt on bomb; reject "atomic bomb" or "fission bomb", since those answers are not correct for any clue]

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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzz Position	Value
Matthew Ryan	Thomas Jefferson A	Grosse Pointe South	49	0
Steven Zhao	Hinsdale Central A	Lexington	52	20
Tyler Song	Winston Churchill A	Uni School of Nashville A	76	10
Haricharan "Hari" Veginati	Adlai E. Stevenson B	Belmont	77	0
Edward Kim	Johns Creek	Fremd	77	0
Soham Ray	Parkway West	Chattahoochee A	77	0
Evan Gniadek	Quince Orchard	Great Valley	77	10
Eshaan Sombhatta	Thomas Jefferson C	Yukon B	77	10
Grant Liu	Walter Payton A	Strake Jesuit A	77	0
Zhedong Han	Winston Churchill B	Yukon A	77	0
Evan Schleck	Hunter A	Lindbergh	79	10
Lyn Redman	Northside College Prep	Thomas Jefferson B	80	10
Robert Young Jr	Page	Irvington	84	0
Manu Sankaran	Lambert A	Alabama Cyber Tech	87	0
Josephine Baxa	Lincoln-Way East B	Detroit Catholic Central B	94	0
Juni Lowenhar	Hunter B	Walter Payton B	105	0
Ben Hesser	Walter Payton B	Hunter B	105	0
Karthik Jayaram	Walker	Georgetown Day	107	10
Anirudh "Ani" Srinivasan	Adlai E. Stevenson A	Park Tudor	108	10
Camden Williams	Audrain County AT	Westwood	108	0
Ryan Chang	Centennial B	Carmel A	108	10
Jonathan Ouyang	Uni of Illinois Laboratory	Richard Montgomery	108	10
Samin Asif	Seven Lakes	Carl Sandburg	108	10
Kaiden Lee	Northview	Strake Jesuit B	111	10
Yongle Xin	Montgomery Blair B	Downingtown STEM	115	10
Rajiv Pujara	Fairfield County AT	Lee's Summit	115	10
Trey Taylor	Milton	Edina	115	10
Arjun Vijaykumar	Saratoga	Carmel B	116	10
Jeffrey Lee	Irvington	Page	118	10
Luke Hinkson	White Pigeon	Okemos	118	10
Justin Yuan	Thomas Jefferson E	Chattahoochee B	118	10
Peter Panchev	Kane County AT	Solon	122	10
Sreekar Vajjha	Classen SAS	Uni School of Nashville B	127	10
Jack Mangrum	Innovation Academy A	Detroit Catholic Central A	127	10
Felix Sacks	Lincoln-Way East A	Saint Joseph	127	10
Sahil Prasad	Centennial A	West Point	127	10
Martin Ames	Chattahoochee A	Parkway West	129	10
Reed Karosich	Coronado	Russell	129	10
Adam Johnson	Virginia	Thomas Jefferson D	129	10
Justin Wang	Strake Jesuit A	Walter Payton A	129	10
Jeffrey Wu	Belmont	Adlai E. Stevenson B	130	10
Leo Osborne	Alabama Cyber Tech	Lambert A	130	0
Deepak Viswalingam	Westwood	Audrain County AT	130	0
Steven Long	Fremd	Johns Creek	130	10
Joseph Harrison	Detroit Catholic Central B	Lincoln-Way East B	130	10
Joshua Koch	Grosse Pointe South	Thomas Jefferson A	130	10
Alex Bach	Yukon A	Winston Churchill B	130	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Exact Match?	TUH	Conv. %	Power %	Neg %	Average Buzz
2025 PACE NSC	06/07/2025	Y	36	92%	3%	0%	112.18