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    The W47 was an American thermonuclear warhead used on the Polaris A-1 sub-launched ballistic missile system. Various models were in service from 1960...
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    tested specimens. The Canadian Welding Bureau, through CSA Standards W47.1, W47.2 and W186, specifies both a WPS and a Welding Procedure Data Sheet (WPDS)...
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    air-launched form, a lightweight thermonuclear warhead was needed. Initially, the W47 from the Polaris missile was selected, but it was later replaced by the W59...
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  • Awards 2019 Alex Award ISBN 978-0-399-59050-4 (First edition hardcover) Dewey Decimal 270.092 B LC Class CT3262.I2 W47 2018 Website tarawestover.com/book...
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  • place United Kingdom Media type Print (Hardcover) Pages 480 ISBN 978-0-241-13997-4 OCLC 43501880 Dewey Decimal 823/.914 21 LC Class PR6069.M59 W47 2000b...
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    for PGM-11 Redstone SRBM and SM-62 Snark cruise missile (cancelled 1958) W47 for UGM-27 Polaris A-1 and A-2 SLBMs (1960–1974) W49 for PGM-19 Jupiter MRBM...
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    Though derived from the W47, Sandia believed that as the non-nuclear components of the weapon would be lighter than those in the W47, with the gross warhead...
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    primary, which was used as the fission primary in the thermonuclear W38 and W47 weapons. In January 1960, the MADM version of the W45 was assigned the name...
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  • W33 in leap years W08 with W12 and W47 in common years and with W34 in leap years W10 and W45 W11 and W46 W12 and W47 W15 and W28 W16 and W29 W37 and W50...
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    16 missiles. Forty more SSBNs were launched in 1960 to 1966. Work on its W47 nuclear warhead began in 1957 at the facility that is now called the Lawrence...
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    ballistic missiles and submarine-launched ballistic missiles. By 1960, with the W47 warhead deployed on Polaris ballistic missile submarines, megaton-class warheads...
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  • Publication place India Media type Print (hardback) Pages 318 ISBN 1-4165-6259-1 OCLC 166373034 Dewey Decimal 823/.92 22 LC Class PR9619.4.A35 W47 2008...
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  • States Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback) Pages 446 pp ISBN 0-316-28526-9 OCLC 40460011 Dewey Decimal 813/.54 21 LC Class PS3556.I8155 W47 1999...
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    between those extremes.[citation needed] Of particular concern was Livermore's W47, which generated unacceptably high yields in one-point testing. To prevent...
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  • Welding Bureau. The CWB Group was formed in 1947 to administer the then, new W47.1 welding standard for structural steel. The CWB has today expanded its scope...
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    ICBM; 1959), B41 (B52 bomb; 1957), W45 (Little John/Terrier missiles; 1956), W47 (Polaris SLBM; 1957), W48 (155-mm howitzer; 1957), W55 (submarine rocket;...
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  • Standards to which welders may be qualified: CSA W47.1 for steels (including stainless steels), CSA W47.2 for aluminum, and CSA W186 for reinforcing bars...
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  • date 2002 Publication place United States Pages 432 ISBN 0-7434-1759-3 OCLC 50728429 Dewey Decimal 364.15/23/0976794 21 LC Class HV6534.W47 L49 2002...
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  • while the W47 warhead for Polaris A-1/A-2 were retrofitted with Kinglet to overcome the technical issues with the Robin primary the W47 was initially...
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    positioning information, and development of a British version of the US W47 warhead to arm it, the RE.179 [1] Archived 18 May 2012 at the Wayback Machine...
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  • (paperback edition) OCLC 57750790 Dewey Decimal 823.92 22 LC Class PR6101.H47 W47 2005 Preceded by PS, I Love You  Followed by If You Could See Me Now ...
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  • used as the W45 nuclear warhead, and as the primary (stage) in the W38 and W47 thermonuclear weapons. It has been associated with the W48 nuclear warhead...
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  • violence Publisher Seven Bridges Press Publication date 2000 Pages 205 ISBN 1-889119-24-5 OCLC 42021377 Dewey Decimal 291.2'3 LC Class BL503.2.W47 2000...
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  • Americas S16.500 W68.150 877,363 3,812 Brazil Brasília Americas S15.7801 W47.9292 4,291,577 1,079 Chile Santiago Americas S33.4691 W070.6420 521 Colombia...
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    same used for reactor control rods, e.g. cadmium), can be used instead. The W47 warhead had its pit filled with a cadmium-boron wire when it was manufactured;...
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  • place United Kingdom Media type Print (hardcover) Pages 310 pp ISBN 0-434-75330-0 OCLC 10052188 Dewey Decimal 823/.914 19 LC Class PR6069.W47 W3 1983b...
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  • (Ace) Publication place United States Media type Print Pages 128 ISBN 0-907080-01-4 OCLC 36954503 Dewey Decimal 813/.54 21 LC Class PS3568.U298 W47 1997...
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  • and paperback) Pages 258 pp ISBN 0-670-81352-4 OCLC 15790818 Dewey Decimal 813/.54 19 LC Class PS3552.U75 W47 1987 Preceded by The Place of Dead Roads ...
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    The warhead used the Kinglet primary, which it shared with the W55 and W47 warheads. The W58 design entered service in 1964 and the last models were...
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    development early XW-47 ? 25.1 kt (105 TJ) 2 stage thermonuclear device, possible W47. Yellowwood May 26, 1958 02:00 UTC MHT (11 hrs) Enjebi (Janet), Enewetak...
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