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Hawking wrote in A Brief History of Time:

> John Wheeler once calculated that if one took all the heavy water in all the oceans of the world, one could build a hydrogen bomb that would compress matter at the center so much that a black hole would be created



OK I think that wins the "largest H-bomb anyone has thought of" prize!


Possibly the largest artificial one, but pair instability supernova turn several solar masses of hydrogen all the way up into nickel-56 in a few seconds:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pair-instability_supernova

Edit: Just remembered that Isaac Arthur has spoken about artificially inducing a Type Ia supernova to synthesise heavy elements, and why sufficiently developed civilisations may want to do this at this scale.




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