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    The Mark 15 nuclear bomb, or Mk-15, was a 1950s American thermonuclear bomb, the first relatively lightweight (7,600 lb (3,400 kg)) thermonuclear bomb created...
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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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    Mark 7 "Thor" (or Mk-7') was the First tactical fission bomb adopted by US armed forces. It was also the first weapon to be delivered using the toss method...
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  • The Mark 10 nuclear bomb was a proposed American nuclear bomb based on the earlier Mark 8 nuclear bomb design. The Mark 10, like the Mark 8, is a Gun-type...
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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    Crossroads nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll in 1946, and some 120 were produced between 1947 and 1949, when it was superseded by the Mark 4 nuclear bomb.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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    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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    which the United States Air Force lost a 7,600-pound (3,400 kg) Mark 15 nuclear bomb in the waters off Tybee Island near Savannah, Georgia, United States...
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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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    States Strategic Air Command in the early 1960s. It was the most powerful nuclear bomb ever developed by the United States, with a maximum yield of 25 megatons...
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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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    of nuclear weapons by Russia is disputed by other experts. Mark 14 nuclear bomb Mark 15 nuclear bomb Mark 16 nuclear bomb Mark 17 nuclear bomb Mark 21...
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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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    never armed with a fuse), there has been ongoing concern because the Mark 15 nuclear bomb lost during the mishap was never recovered. Native Americans, using...
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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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    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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  • (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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    discussed was as part of the British Tube Alloys nuclear bomb development program, the world's first nuclear bomb development program. The British MAUD Report...
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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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  • 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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    V-bombers with megaton weapons in place of the Mark 5, in the form of Mark 15 and Mark 39 nuclear bombs. Under the Project E MOU, US personnel had custody...
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  • ASB-30. The only nuclear warhead torpedo used by the United States was the Mark 45 torpedo. The Soviet Union widely deployed T5 nuclear torpedoes in 1958...
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    develop and test nuclear weapons, although according to a letter sent by A.Q. Khan to General Zia, the capability to detonate a nuclear bomb using highly...
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    Netherlands, United Kingdom, and West Germany) CIM-10 Bomarc (Canada) Mark 7 nuclear bomb (United Kingdom) Mk 101 Lulu (Netherlands and the United Kingdom)...
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  • reserved for use with the Supermarine Seafire Mark 15 nuclear bomb; 1950s American thermonuclear bomb Mark 15 Phalanx CIWS; automated anti-missile gatling...
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    larger in the decades since. A nuclear weapon, also known as an atomic bomb, possesses enormous destructive power from nuclear fission, or a combination of...
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