• The Tsetse was a small American nuclear bomb developed in the 1950s that was used as the primary in several US thermonuclear bombs and as a small stand-alone...
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  • was nicknamed Tsetse Tsetse (nuclear primary), the common design nuclear fission bomb core for several Cold War designs for American nuclear and thermonuclear...
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  • [citation needed] List of nuclear weapons Teller-Ulam design Python primary Tsetse primary Hansen, Chuck (2001). "Beware the old story". Bulletin of the Atomic...
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    Kingdom and Malta in the Mediterranean. Tsetse primary List of nuclear weapons Polmar, Norman (1983). "Tactical Nuclear Weapons". Proceedings. 109 (7). United...
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    Tsetse (/ˈsiːtsi/ SEET-see, US: /ˈtsiːtsi/ TSEET-see or UK: /ˈtsɛtsə/ TSET-sə) (sometimes spelled tzetze; also known as tik-tik flies) are large, biting...
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  • (42 to 84 TJ). It was a two-point primary, like Tsetse, Kinglet, Robin, and Gnat. Starling is reportedly the primary for the W55 (which also used Kinglet)...
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  • apparently common with the W44 Tsetse primary design. Characteristics of these weapons are: List of nuclear weapons Robin primary Beware the old story by Chuck...
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  • used Kinglet are: List of nuclear weapons Teller-Ulam design Tsetse primary Python primary The Y2 nomenclature indicates the high-yield 1,200 kilotonnes...
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    the warhead. Chuck Hansen alleged that all weapons sharing the "Tsetse" nuclear primary design including the W59 suffered from a critical one-point safety...
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    tactical nuclear weapon. WE.177 (also used as a nuclear depth charge). Blue Cat – nuclear warhead a.k.a. Tony - UK version of US W44, a.k.a. Tsetse. Blue...
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    varied from 70 kilotons of TNT to 1 megaton of TNT. The B43 used the Tsetse primary design for its fission stage, as did several mid- and late-1950s designs...
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    between mammal hosts by an insect vector belonging to different species of tsetse fly (Glossina). Transmission occurs by biting during the insect's blood...
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    American Tsetse warhead, but used a different, safer but less powerful conventional explosive, EDC11. The result was that the yield was less than Tsetse, and...
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    GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) Operation Dominic was a series of 31 nuclear test explosions ("shots") with...
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  • It is studied due to its potential use in the biological control of the tsetse fly. Sodalis is an important model for evolutionary biologists because of...
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  • Blue Water (missile) (category Nuclear weapons of the United Kingdom)
    Establishment (AWRE). Codenamed ‘Tony’, this was a UK version of the US W44 Tsetse primary. The Propellant and Explosives Research and Manufacturing Establishment...
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    W59 (category Nuclear warheads of the United States)
    nuclear weapon designs identified by researcher Chuck Hansen as using the common design Tsetse primary. Hansen's research indicates that the Tsetse primary...
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    Operation Nougat (category Nevada Test Site nuclear explosive tests)
    KML GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) Operation Nougat was a series of 44 nuclear tests conducted (with one exception)...
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    UK version of the W44 Tsetse boosted warhead, but all nuclear options for Seaslug were subsequently abandoned, and no nuclear-armed variant of Seaslug...
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    weapons like the North American B-25G Mitchell and de Havilland Mosquito Tsetse. In Germany and the USSR, where they were known as Schlachtflugzeug ("battle...
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    4,5-T in Kenya to assess the value of defoliants in the eradication of tsetse fly. In Malaya, the local unit of Imperial Chemical Industries researched...
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    Operation Whetstone (category Nevada Test Site nuclear explosive tests)
    coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) The United States's Whetstone nuclear test series was a group of 46 nuclear tests conducted...
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    rhodensiense and Trypanosoma brucei gambiense, and is transmitted by the tsetse fly. It is diagnosed by a physical exam and blood test. African sleeping...
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    and other morphological properties within a muscle fiber, can change in a tsetse fly with exercise and age. List of human cell types derived from the germ...
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    livestock development is hindered by the presence of the tsetse fly. The Republic's primary import partner is France (17.1%). Other imports come from...
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  • Cochliomyia hominivorax, various species of tephritidae fruit flies and against tsetse flies (Glossinidae). However, most moths or lepidopterans are more resistant...
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    major feature of the economy, since the region had large grasslands free of tsetse flies. It is unclear when Bantu-speaking peoples first moved into the country...
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    already infected herbivores, rather than through direct infection from tsetse flies. It is known that adult spotted hyenas in the Serengeti have antibodies...
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    birds (e.g. pigeons), rodents and insects (e.g. mosquito, flea, louse and tsetse fly pests) can serve as vectors and reservoirs of human afflictions. Throughout...
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    important within the broad swath of sub-Saharan Africa where the voracious tsetse fly and the trypanosomiasis pathogens it carries make livestock husbandry...
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