about 10 megatons TNT equivalent. The Mark 36 was a more advanced version of the earlier Mark 21 nuclear bomb, which was a weaponized version of the...
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The Mark 11 nuclear bomb was an American nuclear bomb developed from the earlier Mark 8 nuclear bomb in the mid-1950s. Like the Mark 8, the Mark 11 was...
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of nuclear weapons List of military nuclear accidents Castle Bravo Teller-Ulam design Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mark 17 nuclear bomb. Parsons...
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Mark 4 nuclear bomb was an American implosion-type nuclear bomb based on the earlier Mark 3 Fat Man design, used in the Trinity test and the bombing of...
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The Mark 16 nuclear bomb was a large American thermonuclear bomb (hydrogen bomb), based on the design of the Ivy Mike, the first thermonuclear device...
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Fat Man (redirect from Mark 3 nuclear bomb)
Crossroads nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll in 1946, and some 120 were produced between 1947 and 1949, when it was superseded by the Mark 4 nuclear bomb. The Fat...
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The Mark 84 or BLU-117 is a 2,000-pound (900 kg) American general purpose aircraft bomb. It is the largest of the Mark 80 series of weapons. Entering service...
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remain the only use of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict. Japan surrendered to the Allies on 15 August, six days after the bombing of Nagasaki and the...
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The Mark 21 nuclear bomb was a United States thermonuclear gravity bomb first produced in 1955. It was based on the TX 21 "Shrimp" prototype that had...
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States Strategic Air Command in the early 1960s. It was the most powerful nuclear bomb ever developed by the United States, with a maximum yield of 25 megatons...
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Little Boy (redirect from Mark 1 nuclear bomb)
type of atomic bomb used in the bombing of the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 during World War II, making it the first nuclear weapon used in...
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British Columbia on Mount Kologet after jettisoning a Mark 4 nuclear bomb. This was the first such nuclear weapon loss in history. The B-36B had been en route...
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1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash (redirect from Goldsboro nuclear bomb)
B-52 Stratofortress carrying two 3.8-megaton Mark 39 nuclear bombs broke up in mid-air, dropping its nuclear payload in the process. The pilot in command...
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The B28, originally Mark 28, was a thermonuclear bomb carried by U.S. tactical fighter bombers, attack aircraft and bomber aircraft. From 1962 to 1972...
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nuclear bomb (Mark 28) (1958–1991) Mark 36 – Strategic nuclear bomb (1956–1961) 6–19 Megatons B39 nuclear bomb (Mark 39) (1957–1966) B41 nuclear bomb...
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A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or a combination of fission...
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Goudsmit and the German Atomic Bomb, Physics Today Volume 43, Issue 1, 52–60 (1990) Walker, Mark German Work on Nuclear Weapons, Historia Scientiarum;...
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List of aircraft weapons (section Air-dropped bombs)
nuclear bomb (USA) Mark 24 nuclear bomb (USA) Mark 28 nuclear bomb (USA) Mark 36 nuclear bomb (USA) Mark 77 bomb incendiary bomb (USA) Mark 81 bomb (USA)...
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1952, it detonated an atomic bomb in the Monte Bello Islands in Australia in Operation Hurricane. Eleven more British nuclear weapons tests in Australia...
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Tsar Bomba (redirect from Russian monster bomb)
as its final report put it, the design of a nuclear device "of practically unlimited power". The bomb was dropped by parachute from a Tu-95V aircraft...
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B28 nuclear bomb (1958–1991): laydown delivery and ground burst Mark 39 nuclear bomb (1958–1962) laydown delivery and ground burst B43 nuclear bomb (1961–1990):...
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Pakistan and weapons of mass destruction (redirect from Pakistan nuclear bomb)
develop and test nuclear weapons, although according to a letter sent by A.Q. Khan to General Zia, the capability to detonate a nuclear bomb using highly...
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Castle Bravo (redirect from Bravo bomb)
in diameter. This 18-megaton bomb was produced until July 1956. In 1957, it was converted into the Mark 36 nuclear bomb and entered into production again...
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1955, Ulam co-authored a classified paper proposing the use of nuclear fission bombs, "ejected and detonated at a considerable distance", for propelling...
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The Bomb: A Life. Random House. p. 95. ISBN 9781446449615. Tannenwald, Nina (2007). The Nuclear Taboo: The United States and the Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons...
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Operation Opera (redirect from Osirak Nuclear Plant)
that contrary to claims that the bombing of the Iraqi Osirak reactor delayed Iraq's nuclear bomb program, the Iraqi nuclear program before 1981 was peaceful...
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larger in the decades since. A nuclear weapon, also known as an atomic bomb, possesses enormous destructive power from nuclear fission, or a combination of...
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1966 Palomares incident (redirect from Palomares H-Bomb Incident)
of military nuclear accidents RAF Lakenheath nuclear near-disasters – included another US military incident involving a Mark 28 nuclear bomb Notes Hayes...
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Manhattan Project (redirect from United States atomic bomb project)
Corps of Engineers. Nuclear physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer was the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory that designed the bombs. The Army program was...
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H-Bomb Fell Near Albuquerque in 1957". Los Angeles Times. Associated Press. August 27, 1986. Retrieved 31 August 2014. "A Brief History of Nuclear Fission...
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