• Variable yield, or dial-a-yield, is an option available on most modern nuclear weapons. It allows the operator to specify a weapon's yield, or explosive...
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    low-to-intermediate yield strategic and tactical nuclear weapon featuring a two-stage radiation implosion design. The B61 is of the variable yield ("dial-a-yield" in...
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    nuclear weapons, but larger ones are still very powerful, and some variable-yield warheads serve in both roles. For example, the W89 200 kiloton warhead...
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    is a variable-yield thermonuclear gravity bomb developed by the United States in the late 1970s that entered service in 1983. With a maximum yield of 1...
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    The explosive yield of a nuclear weapon is the amount of energy released such as blast, thermal, and nuclear radiation, when that particular nuclear weapon...
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    low to intermediate yield two-stage thermonuclear warhead deployed by the U.S. enduring stockpile with a variable yield ("dial-a-yield") of 5 or 150 kilotonnes...
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  • depending on flight profile. The ASMP uses the TN 81 warhead, which has a variable-yield of 100 to 300 kilotons of TNT (420 to 1,260 TJ). In 1991, 90 missiles...
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    The B43 was a United States air-dropped variable yield thermonuclear weapon used by a wide variety of fighter bomber and bomber aircraft. The B43 was developed...
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    like a large bomber or naval base. However, yields can overlap, and many weapons such as the variable yield B61 nuclear bomb which could be used at low...
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    Yield curve control (YCC) is a monetary policy action whereby a central bank purchases variable amounts of government bonds or other financial assets...
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    ballistic missile (ICBM). The announcement stated the warhead had a variable yield "the explosive power of which is adjustable from tens kiloton to hundreds...
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  • the variable is altered to 2009, then reading the value using the identifier "total_count" will yield a result of 2009 and not 1956. If a variable is only...
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    by a mechanical timer and had a variable yield equivalent to between 10 tons and 1 kt of TNT. A field non-variable yield version of the W54 nuclear device...
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  • and instead features a plastic guard of some sort. The W80-0 has a variable yield of 5 or 150 kilotons. 367 W80-0 warheads were produced. The AGM-86 ALCM...
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    plutonium-based linear-implosion nuclear weapons. The Mod 0 was a variable yield device with three yields, ranging from 100 tons of TNT (420 GJ) up to 1.1 kt (4...
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    United States to arm the Pershing II missile. It was a variable yield device with a selectable yield of 0.3, 5, 10 or 80 kilotonnes of TNT (1, 21, 42 or...
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  • Yield management (YM) is a variable pricing strategy, based on understanding, anticipating and influencing consumer behavior in order to maximize revenue...
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  • use of an external neutron source allows more flexibility, such as variable yields. The usual design is based on a combination of beryllium-9 and polonium-210...
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    variable yield, whereby the explosive energy of the device may be varied between a low setting for use in shallow or coastal waters, and a high yield...
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    thermodynamic potentials based on conjugate variables. In the above description, the product of two conjugate variables yields an energy. In other words, the conjugate...
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  • The TN 90 was a variable yield thermonuclear warhead developed by France for the Hadès tactical missile, designed to replace the AN 51/Pluton system. Development...
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    August 2007, six AGM-129 ACM cruise missiles, each loaded with a W80-1 variable yield nuclear warhead, were mistakenly loaded onto a United States Air Force...
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    (350 kg). The B90's yield has been described at both 200 kilotons of TNT (840 TJ) and "low kt". This may indicate a variable yield weapon. The B90 was...
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  • nuclear TN 90 or conventional HE warheads, the former probably having a yield of 80 kt. The program completed development in 1992, with the first flight...
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    was a variable-yield fission weapon that used a levitated pit and an implosion design with 92 high-explosive lenses. The weapon had multiple yields of 8...
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    In road transport, a yield or give way sign indicates that merging drivers must prepare to stop if necessary to let a driver on another approach proceed...
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  • (190 mi) 3.0 860 kg (1,900 lb) 100 to 300 kt (TNT equivalent) TN 81 variable yield nuclear warhead Decommissioned ASMP-A Air-to-surface, nuclear cruise...
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    A random variable (also called random quantity, aleatory variable, or stochastic variable) is a mathematical formalization of a quantity or object which...
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    90 m (300 ft). The AGM-129A, like the AGM-86B, is armed with a W80-1 variable-yield nuclear warhead. The first test missile flew in July 1985, and the first...
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  • United States Treasury securities or Treasurys. Due to the safety, the yields are typically low. Agency: In the United States, these are bonds issued...
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