See supersun on Wiktionary
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"text": "This rising supersun, an Inner voice seemed to be saying, really was a symbol of the dawn of a new day on earth — the coming of an era in which any sizable war had become Impossible, because no aggressor could from now on ever dare to start an aggressive war without the certainty of absolute and swift annihilation.",
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"ref": "1960, The Bulletin of the National Association of Secondary-School Principals 1960-01: Volume 44 Issue 252, Sage Publications, Inc.:",
"text": "The author tells of the discoveries of the great pioneers—Henri Becquerel, the Curies, Einstein—and of the explorations into the unknown by Rutherford, Planck, Fermi, Bohr, and many others, that culminated in the “great green supersun” rising over the New Mexico desert in 1945.",
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"ref": "2017 December 30, RedGolpe, “The Supersun on January 3 (x-post /r/space)”, in reddit.com:",
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