Yellow Sun was the first British operational high-yield strategic nuclear weapon warhead. The name refers only to the outer casing; the warhead (or physics...
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Yellow sun or Yellow Sun may refer to: Yellow Sun (nuclear weapon), a British nuclear weapon Yellow sun, a type of stellar classification "Yellow Sun"...
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Fission weapon. Red Snow for Yellow Sun Mk.2. Green Grass For Yellow Sun Mk.1. Red Beard, tactical nuclear weapon. WE.177 (also used as a nuclear depth...
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Rainbow Code (redirect from Red Flag (nuclear weapon))
precursor to Green Cheese Yellow Sun – nuclear weapon casing Yellow Temple – nuclear-armed SAGW development of Red Shoes Yellow Tiger – Target illuminating...
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Nuclear Weapons Design are physical, chemical, and engineering arrangements that cause the physics package of a nuclear weapon to detonate. There are three...
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develop and test nuclear weapons, and is one of the five nuclear-weapon states under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. The UK initiated...
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Red Snow (redirect from Red Snow (nuclear weapon))
the casing of the Yellow Sun weapon, even though the Red Snow warhead was considerably smaller than that of the original Yellow Sun bomb. The Red Snow...
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WE.177 (redirect from WE.177 (nuclear weapon))
Weeze- Laarbruch Germany; Yellow Sun (nuclear weapon) Nuclear weapons and the United Kingdom Dr Richard Moore (March 2004). UK Nuclear History, Working Paper...
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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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A weapon of mass destruction (WMD) is a biological, chemical, radiological, nuclear, or any other weapon that can kill or significantly harm many people...
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Nuclear warfare, also known as atomic warfare, is a military conflict or prepared political strategy that deploys nuclear weaponry. Nuclear weapons are...
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The Nuclear Power? No Thanks logo (Danish: Atomkraft? Nej tak), also known as the Smiling Sun, is an international symbol of the anti-nuclear movement...
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Mk 101 Lulu (redirect from Mark 101 Lulu nuclear bomb)
as the primary for the thermonuclear Yellow Sun weapon, and with the codename Python in the American B28 nuclear bomb. "Comments and Corrections: Ask...
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Violet Club (category Cold War weapons of the United Kingdom)
Violet Club was a nuclear weapon deployed by the United Kingdom during the Cold War; the name was chosen in adherence to the Rainbow code system. It was...
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strategic nuclear bomb) WE.177C (UK tactical nuclear bomb) Yellow Sun Mk.1 (UK strategic nuclear bomb) Yellow Sun Mk.2 (UK strategic nuclear bomb) AGM-28...
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Tsar Bomba (redirect from Largest Nuclear Weapon)
designation "AN602", was a thermonuclear aerial bomb, and the most powerful nuclear weapon ever created and tested. The Soviet physicist Andrei Sakharov oversaw...
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Project E (category Nuclear weapons program of the United States)
during the Cold War to provide nuclear weapons to the Royal Air Force (RAF) until sufficient British nuclear weapons became available. It was subsequently...
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Tom Waits on Real Gone (album) Green Grass (nuclear warhead), used on British nuclear weapon Yellow Sun Greengrass, surname Greengrass Productions, production...
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may be made available as nuclear energy and can be used to produce electricity, as in nuclear power, or in a nuclear weapon. When a large nucleus splits...
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V bomber (category Nuclear history of the United Kingdom)
military installation with a nuclear weapon. It would have to be a large bomber, since the first generation of nuclear weapons were big and heavy. Such a...
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Trinity was the code name of the first detonation of a nuclear weapon, conducted by the United States Army at 5:29 a.m. MWT (11:29:21 GMT) on July 16,...
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free-fall nuclear weapons. These may have included Blue Danube, US Mk.5 supplied under Project E, Red Beard, Yellow Sun Mk.1, and certainly Yellow Sun Mk.2...
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US–UK Mutual Defence Agreement (category Nuclear weapons program of the United States)
bilateral treaty between the United States and the United Kingdom on nuclear weapons co-operation. The treaty's full name is Agreement between the Government...
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shown how nuclear weapons facilities can be penetrated, and the group's actions represent extraordinary breaches of security at nuclear weapons plants in...
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000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict. Japan surrendered to the Allies on 15 August...
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The anti-nuclear movement in the United States consists of more than 80 anti-nuclear groups that oppose nuclear power, nuclear weapons, and/or uranium...
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squadron to receive the Vulcan Mk2. Initially these were armed with Yellow Sun nuclear weapons, later to be replaced by Blue Steel stand-off bombs. The squadron...
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Operation Grapple (category British nuclear weapons testing)
Operation Grapple was a set of four series of British nuclear weapons tests of early atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs carried out in 1957 and 1958 at Malden...
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Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (category Anti–nuclear weapons movement)
the Soviet Union over nuclear weapons. He later addresses the United Nations and announces his plan to rid the world of all nuclear arms. Meanwhile, Lenny...
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for nuclear reactors and in uranium enrichment, one of the essential steps for creating nuclear weapons. Titan yellow (also known as clayton yellow), chemical...
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