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...s, which were new aircraft weeapons; and light bombs. There were two small bomb bays in each wing inboard of the landing gear, and there were external rack

{{Image|Trinity test.jpg|right|250px|Trinity test of an atomic bomb]] on July 15, 1945 at 0.016 seconds after detonation. The fireball was abou ...d's first nuclear weapon, commonly referred to at that time as an ''atomic bomb''.

...xplosion from nuclear fission of weapons-purity nuclear fuel. A '''fission bomb''' can be dropped from an airplane, or at least transported to a real targe ...that produces nuclear energy, has a number, which is prefixed by "B" if a bomb and "W" if a warhead. A link, therefore, could be to W54 (nuclear weapon)|W

...ser-guided) seeker that Raytheon developed for the [[GBU-53 Small Diameter Bomb]]. Lockheed Martin builds on its existing Hellfire, as well as the "Hellf

* Craig, Campbell, and Yuri Smirnov. ''Truman, Stalin, and the Bomb'' (2008) ...Union and Atomic Energy, 1939-1956'' (1996) [http://www.amazon.com/Stalin-Bomb-Soviet-Atomic-1939-1956/dp/0300066643/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-4827826-5463040?i

...quarters, as well as one of the two operational B-52 bomber wings, the 2nd Bomb Wing, as well as the 917th Wing, which both includes a B-52 squadron and Ai Located in North Dakota, Minot hosts the other B-52 wing, the 5th Bomb Wing. It also is the base for the 91st Space Wing of Minuteman ICBMs. As a

...fraud.<ref name=Telegraph2012-06-28/> He was subsequently killed by a car bomb, before he could finish his inquiry.

...Schmidt, in spite of orders to hold fire, dropped a 500-pound laser-guided bomb on members of the 3rd Battalion of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light I ...hmidt said he was "rolling in, in self defense." He dropped a laser-guided bomb 35 seconds later.

*Range: 1,100 miles with 4,000 lbs. bomb load

...[[Suez Crisis]]. About the crisis, Eden famously defended his decision to bomb Egyptian troops following the nationalisation of the [[Suez Canal]] by rema

...the location of the biggest man-made explosion the world before the atomic bomb which killed over 1,900 people immediately, the figure raising to well ove

...acks, but were far less clear if they could do so when he was assembling a bomb. These issues of rules of engagement have been an issue ever since.<ref nam

...ned out 16 square miles and killed over 80,000, most of whom suffocated in bomb shelters when the firestorm consumed the oxygen. One fourth of the building The 509th Bomb Group was specifically trained for the nuclear delivery missions, which wer

...taminated with radioactive nuclides unsuitable for [[Nuclear_proliferation|bomb making]]. A rogue dictator will find it much easier to go the route of ever

...vised bomb made from 55-gallon drums of bulk CS gas|CS powder, designated "Bomb, Fuze, and Burster, CS in 55-gallon Drum, XM920."<ref name=FM1-40>{{citatio ...onducted using both modified M121 10,000 lb bombs and the BLU-82 15,000 lb bomb.<ref name=Mesko1984>{{citation | author = Mesko, Jim|title=Airmobile: The H

...e British and American scientists had made on the development of an atomic bomb. Following the end of the [[Second World War]], Bohr returned to Copenhagen

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*Wittner, Lawrence S. (2009). ''Confronting the Bomb: A Short History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement'', Stanford Univ

...that typically holds two [[precision-guided munition]]s, usually [[guided bomb]]s using inertial (e.g., [[JDAM]]), television (e.g., GBU-15), or laser gui

...an actual bomb production schedule in December 1944, indicating the first bomb could be ready in August 1945. The War Department Operations Division (OPD) ...due to the combination of secrecy about development and uncertainty if the bomb would work. President Harry S Truman was unaware of the Manhattan Project u