Conclusion: an interior fusion explosion will kill it.

"Could it be an effect of all the fusion explosions?"

The organisms were destroyed by exposure to a nuclear fusion explosion.

The fusion explosion of the hypernova drives the energetics of the process.

Maybe it's supposed to accelerate a fusion explosion.

Space was being devastated by another hail of fusion explosions.

You get a fusion explosion along the axis.

But the pulse from the fusion explosion irradiated everything in a large circle.

The fusion explosion would have to be inside twenty kilometres to guarantee elimination.

Wood nodded ruefully and said, "Well, if it was really that simple, the ship would blow itself to bits in a fusion explosion."