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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Mixed up fission and fusion there, they sound so similar in English.
The comment talks about fusion.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Most of the energy does not come from fusion.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

It does in modern designs, the first time it happened was in 1952.

To quote Wikipedia:

The first thermonuclear weapon detonation, where the vast majority of the yield comes from fusion, was the 1952 Ivy Mike test of a liquid deuterium-fusing device.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fusion