The Mark 16 nuclear bomb was a large thermonuclear bomb (hydrogen bomb), based on the design of the Ivy Mike, the first thermonuclear device ever test...

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...

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...

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...

Crossroads nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll in 1946, and some 120 were produced between 1947 and 1949, when it was superseded by the Mark 4 nuclear bomb.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...

The Mark 18 nuclear bomb, also known as the SOB or Super Oralloy Bomb, was an American nuclear bomb design which was the highest yield fission bomb produced...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or a combination of fission...

Goudsmit and the German Atomic Bomb, Physics Today Volume 43, Issue 1, 52–60 (1990) Walker, Mark German Work on Nuclear Weapons, Historia Scientiarum;...

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...

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...

Pearls Other uses Jughead, the nickname for a version of the 1954 Mark 16 nuclear bomb Jughead (search engine), which worked under the Gopher protocol "Jughead"...

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...

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...

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...

"Thin Man" was the code name for a proposed plutonium-fueled gun-type nuclear bomb that the United States was developing during the Manhattan Project. Its...

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...

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...

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...

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...

1952, it detonated an atomic bomb in the Monte Bello Islands in Australia in Operation Hurricane. Eleven more British nuclear weapons tests in Australia...

Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcons (F-16s) and Panavia Tornados. Historically, the shared nuclear weapon delivery systems were not restricted to bombs. Greece...

was a British tactical nuclear weapon project in the 1950s. The project's goal was to store a number of ten-kiloton nuclear land mines in Germany. These...

A thermonuclear weapon, fusion weapon or hydrogen bomb (H bomb) is a second-generation nuclear weapon design. Its greater sophistication affords it vastly...

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...

of military nuclear accidents RAF Lakenheath nuclear near-disasters – included another US military incident involving a Mark 28 nuclear bomb Notes Hayes...