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    The Mark 11 nuclear bomb was an American nuclear bomb developed from the earlier Mark 8 nuclear bomb in the mid-1950s. Like the Mark 8, the Mark 11 was...
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    The Mark 8 nuclear bomb was an American nuclear bomb, designed in the late 1940s and early 1950s, which was in service from 1952 to 1957. The Mark 8 was...
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    Mark 4 nuclear bomb was an American implosion-type nuclear bomb based on the earlier Mark 3 Fat Man design, used in the Trinity test and the bombing of...
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    The Mark 5 nuclear bomb and W5 nuclear warhead were a common core American nuclear weapon design, designed in the early 1950s and which saw service from...
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    The Mark 39 nuclear bomb and W39 nuclear warhead were versions of an American thermonuclear weapon, which were in service from 1957 to 1966. The Mark 39...
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    of nuclear weapons List of military nuclear accidents Castle Bravo Teller-Ulam design Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mark 17 nuclear bomb. Parsons...
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    Fat Man (redirect from Mark 3 nuclear bomb)
    Crossroads nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll in 1946, and some 120 were produced between 1947 and 1949, when it was superseded by the Mark 4 nuclear bomb. The Fat...
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  • The Mark 27 nuclear bomb and closely related W27 warhead were two American thermonuclear weapon designs from the late 1950s. The Mark 27 was designed...
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    type of atomic bomb used in the bombing of the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 during World War II , making it the first nuclear weapon used...
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    Mark 24 nuclear bomb was an American thermonuclear bomb design, based on the third American thermonuclear bomb test, Castle Yankee. The Mark 24 bomb was...
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    nuclear bomb (Mark 28) (1958–1991) Mark 36 – Strategic nuclear bomb (1956–1961) 6–19 Megatons B39 nuclear bomb (Mark 39) (1957–1966) B41 nuclear bomb...
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    The B28, originally Mark 28, was a thermonuclear bomb carried by U.S. tactical fighter bombers, attack aircraft and bomber aircraft. From 1962 to 1972...
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    megatons, was the most powerful weapon in the U.S. nuclear arsenal after the last B41 nuclear bombs were retired in 1976. The B53 was the basis of the...
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    B-52 Stratofortress carrying two 3.8-megaton Mark 39 nuclear bombs broke up in mid-air, dropping its nuclear payload in the process. The pilot in command...
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    Goudsmit and the German Atomic Bomb, Physics Today Volume 43, Issue 1, 52–60 (1990) Walker, Mark German Work on Nuclear Weapons, Historia Scientiarum;...
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    A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or a combination of fission...
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  • fighter Mark 11 missile launcher, a naval based missile launcher Mark 11 nuclear bomb (1956-1960), an American nuclear bomb United States Navy Mk 11 Mod 0...
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  • W34 was 11 kilotons. The W34 was deployed in several applications: Mark 101 Lulu nuclear depth bomb, the Mark 45 ASTOR torpedo and the Mark 105 Hotpoint...
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    charges as well. Mark 8 nuclear bomb (1952-1957): earth penetrating W8 for SSM-N-8 Regulus (cancelled): earth penetrating Mark 11 nuclear bomb (1956-1960):...
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    remain the only use of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict. Japan surrendered to the Allies on 15 August, six days after the bombing of Nagasaki and the...
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  • The Mark 84 or BLU-117 is a 2,000-pound (900 kg) American general-purpose bomb. It is the largest of the Mark 80 series of weapons. Entering service during...
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  • as its final report put it, the design of a nuclear device "of practically unlimited power". The bomb was dropped by parachute from a Tu-95V aircraft...
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  • (USA) Mark 10 nuclear bomb (USA) Mark 11 nuclear bomb (USA) Mark 12 nuclear bomb (USA) Mark 15 nuclear bomb (USA) Mark 15/39 nuclear bomb (USA) Mark 18 nuclear...
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    of military nuclear accidents RAF Lakenheath nuclear near-disasters – included another US military incident involving a Mark 28 nuclear bomb Notes Hayes...
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  • The Mark 82 is a 500-pound (230 kg) unguided, low-drag general-purpose bomb, part of the United States Mark 80 series. The explosive filling is usually...
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    on 2018-11-04. Retrieved 2018-11-04. Mark Hibbs (17 July 1998). "U.S. Now Believes Pakistan to use Khushab Plutonium in Bomb Program". Nuclear Watch. Boston...
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    in 40 Mark 8 bombs, and their replacement, 40 Mark 11 bombs. Both the Mark 8 and Mark 11 designs were intended for use as earth-penetrating bombs (see...
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    A thermonuclear weapon, fusion weapon or hydrogen bomb (H bomb) is a second-generation nuclear weapon design. Its greater sophistication affords it vastly...
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    1952, it detonated an atomic bomb in the Monte Bello Islands in Australia in Operation Hurricane. Eleven more British nuclear weapons tests in Australia...
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    Carolina. The bomb, which lacked the fissile nuclear core, fell over the area, causing damage to buildings below. Though there was no nuclear detonation...
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