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  • USS Saratoga (CV-3)
    ...ic]]. Honored, but obsolete and worn-out, she sunk in 1946 as a target for nuclear weapon tests.
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  • Operation FLAMING DART
    ...[circular error probability]] (CEP). A 750 foot CEP is not an issue with a nuclear weapon, but it is far too inaccurate for reliable delivery of high-explosive bombs
    3 KB (488 words) - 13:22, 27 June 2024
  • Explosive ordnance disposal
    ...the "NBCR" component. An EOD technician may well know how to render-safe a nuclear weapon of his or her own side, perhaps in an uncertain state due to a crash or oth ...oro, North Carolina. When the bomber broke apart in flight, one [[Mark 39 (nuclear weapon)| Mark 39]] bomb's parachute worked and it landed with minimal damage. Whil
    9 KB (1,330 words) - 10:44, 22 May 2024
  • V-1
    ...did make war patrols with what was essentially a longer-ranged V-1 with a nuclear weapon. The [[UGM-27 Polaris]] [[submarine-launched ballistic missile]], a quantum
    6 KB (905 words) - 08:30, 4 May 2024
  • User:Howard C. Berkowitz/Layer
    ...parently deployed for a while in the fifties under the name [[Violet Club (nuclear weapon)]].
    7 KB (1,146 words) - 03:57, 22 November 2023
  • Fission device
    ...or to a weapon before this naming convention started, such as Little Boy (nuclear weapon)|Little Boy. ...lear weapon)|Mark 6 Mod 0, to 60 on the Mark 6 Mod 2, to 92 on the Mark 7 (nuclear weapon)|Mark 7. The explosive lenses themselves are usually constructed of layers
    18 KB (2,844 words) - 16:57, 29 March 2024
  • Talk:Proximity fuze
    ...ion initiation; it is not widely understood that many of the most critical nuclear weapon technologies actually are precision techniques for manipulating the initiat
    2 KB (316 words) - 08:50, 4 May 2024
  • Kazakhstan
    ...e Baikonur Cosmodrome, and the Semipalatinsk "Polygon", the USSR's primary nuclear weapon testing site. Kazakhstan declared itself an independent country on December
    2 KB (303 words) - 08:11, 29 February 2024
  • Talk:UGM-133 Trident D5
    ...nificant issue, for a number of reasons. For one specific case, see [[W88 (nuclear weapon)]], where the ability to put the heavier fission trigger at the base of the
    8 KB (1,347 words) - 11:50, 26 August 2010
  • CZ:Military Workgroup
    ...ded missile]]|[[Machine gun]]| [[Mortar]] | [[Multiple rocket launcher]] | Nuclear weapon| [[Precision-guided munition]]| [[Rifle]] | [[Ship]] | [[Submarine]] | [[T
    6 KB (643 words) - 13:20, 27 June 2024
  • Los Alamos National Laboratory
    ...d Kingdom]] and [[Canada]] that culminated in developing the world's first nuclear weapon, commonly referred to at that time as an ''atomic bomb''. The Manhattan project culminated with the detonation of the first nuclear weapon, known as the [[Trinity test]],
    19 KB (2,853 words) - 09:20, 22 April 2024
  • Missile Technology Control Regime
    ...hese two parameters are intended to cover the weight of a first-generation nuclear weapon, delivered over a minimally strategic distance:<ref name=ProConMCTR>{{citat
    4 KB (634 words) - 14:34, 10 June 2024
  • User:Howard C. Berkowitz/Boost
    ...within the external shell rather than an inner levitated shell. The [[W47 (nuclear weapon)]] primary used a neutron absorbing safing wire that was withdrawn from the
    16 KB (2,501 words) - 03:57, 22 November 2023
  • Radiofrequency MASINT
    Nuclear weapon#Electromagnetic effects|Nuclear and large conventional explosions produce r
    15 KB (2,153 words) - 14:43, 18 March 2024
  • Fusion device
    ...es should none of the fusion approaches work; this resulted in the Mark 6 (nuclear weapon) designed by Ted Taylor, better known as the Super Oralloy Bomb ("SOB"). These shapes change in recent designs such as the W88 (nuclear weapon)|W88, in which the Primary is oblate &mdash; think of a watermelon or Ameri
    20 KB (3,072 words) - 10:33, 18 March 2024
  • Archive:Monthly Write-a-Thon/May 5, 2010
    ...real things and humor. For the official encore, I shall do [[Violet Club (nuclear weapon)]], further indicating the influence of [[Monty Python]] on [[United Kingdo
    4 KB (658 words) - 13:46, 9 April 2024
  • Plutonium
    ...bs that do not have the pre-detonation problem. The atomic bomb [[Fat Man (nuclear weapon)|Fat Man]] that detonated over [[Nagasaki]] on August 9, 1945 had a Pu-239
    10 KB (1,406 words) - 17:02, 22 March 2024
  • Space law
    *The [[Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space, and Under Water|nuclear test ban t
    8 KB (1,291 words) - 14:49, 24 February 2023
  • Compartmented control system
    ...rtments. While a bomber crew needed to know how to handle, arm, and drop a nuclear weapon, they had no need to know the physics of how the internals of the bomb work ===Critical Nuclear Weapon Design Information===
    24 KB (3,594 words) - 05:16, 31 March 2024
  • National technical means of verification
    | title = Nuclear Weapon Hydronuclear Testing France tested its first nuclear weapon on February 13, 1960 <ref>{{cite web
    21 KB (3,064 words) - 05:12, 31 March 2024
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