The W54 (also known as the Mark 54 or B54) was a tactical nuclear warhead developed by the United States in the late 1950s. The weapon is notable for...
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recoilless smoothbore gun for firing the M388 nuclear projectile, armed with the W54 nuclear warhead, that was deployed by the United States during the Cold War...
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semi-active radar homing. The GAR-11 used a sub-kiloton (250 ton) yield W54 warhead shared with the "Davy Crockett" M388 recoilless rifle projectile...
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as nuclear weapons with destructive yields of 10 tons of TNT (e.g., the W54 warhead design) might be used more willingly at times of crisis than warheads...
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attack submarine USS Grayback while carrying an actual atomic weapon, a W54 SADM.: 102 Green Light Teams wore fatigues without military markings or...
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projectile fired by the portable Davy Crockett recoilless gun. The M-388, a W54 nuclear warhead variant, weighed less than 60 pounds (27 kg). At the projectile's...
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several different types of lightweight nuclear devices. The main one was the W54, a cylinder 40 by 60 cm (about 16 by 24 inches) that weighed 23 kg (50 lb)...
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(1961–1966) W31/ADM (1960–1965) W45/Medium Atomic Demolition Munition (1964–1984) W54/Special Atomic Demolition Munition (1965–1989) Missile and Rocket warheads...
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device, which became the W54 warhead, was closer to a sphere, only 15 inches (38 cm) long. One of the applications of the W54 was the Davy Crockett XM-388...
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as manager. His cumulative managerial statistics read as – Record (P139 W54 D34 L51 W%38.85). Malcolm Allison served two terms as manager. His cumulative...
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17, 1962 as part of Operation Sunbeam. They were both tests of stockpiled W54 warheads, the smallest nuclear warheads known to have been produced by the...
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nuclear warhead ever acknowledged to have been manufactured by the U.S. is the W54, which was used in both the Davy Crockett 120 mm recoilless rifle-launched...
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Classification D ICD-10: W54 (Bitten or struck by dog) ICD-9-CM: E906.0 External resources MedlinePlus: 000888...
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around 600 tons of TNT. These warheads were remanufactured from retired W54 warheads. The warheads were retired in 1979. After the war, the Navy continued...
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nuclear shell to be fired from a cannon. (The Little Feller 1 test shot of a W54 used a Davy Crockett weapon system, which was a recoilless smooth-bore gun...
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Munition program to manually place and detonate a modified version of the W54 nuclear bomb. The report stated that he and other soldiers training for the...
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tons of TNT (42 PJ). Nuclear bombs have had yields between 10 tons TNT (the W54) and 50 megatons for the Tsar Bomba (see TNT equivalent). A thermonuclear...
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1957–1992. M-28/M-29 Davy Crockett (nuclear device) M-388 warhead derived from W54, 1961–1971. MGR-3 Little John free flight rocket delivering W45 nuclear weapon...
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Print (Hardcover and Paperback) Pages 288 Award Pulitzer Prize (1979) ISBN 0-674-01638-6 OCLC 55534964 Dewey Decimal 304.5 22 LC Class GN365.9 .W54 2004...
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"Raheja Altimus". CTBUH Skyscraper Center. Retrieved 5 April 2024. "Wadhwa W54, Mumbai". Skyscraperpage.com. Retrieved 5 April 2024. "Runwal Bliss 3". Emporis...
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weapon via a wire for safe remote detonation of the weapon. Green Light Teams W54 Warhead Medium Atomic Demolition Munition Suitcase nuclear device List of...
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LANL B53 76 Retired All-uranium pit LANL W54 81 Retired Require cleaning before long-term storage LANL W54-1 96 Retired Require cleaning before long-term...
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(advanced thermobaric bomb, ATBIP) 0.044 9,100 4.83 W54, Mk-54 (Davy Crockett) 0.022 23 1,000 W54, B54 (SADM) 1.0 23 43,500 Hypothetical suitcase nuke...
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W52 kg Reine Ngoune (CMR) Ornella Havyarimana (BDI) Souha Miloudi (ALG) W54 kg Sara Hagnighat-Joo (SLE) Fatma Abdelkader (ALG) Widad Bertal (MAR)...
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2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) "Shreepati Arcade". "Wadhwa W54, Mumbai". skyscraperpage.com. Retrieved 26 October 2022. "Magnum Towers 1"...
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Crockett launcher with a miniaturised warhead that may be similar to the W54. The Pakistan Air Force (PAF) is believed to have practiced "toss-bombing"...
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Mountain Meadows W50 Apex NC Apex W53 Hagerstown Observatory MD Hagerstown W54 Mark Slade Remote Observatory Src VA Mark Slade Remote Observatory, Wilderness...
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United States of America Media type Print (Hardback, Paperback) Pages 260 ISBN 0-393-04982-5 OCLC 49351809 Dewey Decimal 330 21 LC Class HB171 .W54 2002...
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Media type Print (hardcover) Pages 101 pp. OCLC 317883683 LC Class F598 .W54 Preceded by The First Four Years (fiction) Followed by West From Home ...
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(1st paperback) OCLC 1153000530 Dewey Decimal 813/.6 LC Class PS3622.O23 W54 2020 Preceded by The Empress of Salt and Fortune Followed by Into the Riverlands ...
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