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... 3 KB (419 words) - 16:30, 14 February 2024 |
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... 11 KB (1,181 words) - 21:10, 30 March 2024 |
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... 3 KB (346 words) - 09:35, 26 June 2023 |
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... 3 KB (462 words) - 04:14, 11 June 2021 |
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... 4 KB (405 words) - 23:32, 10 August 2023 |
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bomb) Crossroads nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll in 1946, and some 120 were produced between 1947 and 1949, when it was superseded by the Mark 4 nuclear bomb.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... 47 KB (5,731 words) - 13:30, 1 April 2024 |
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... 3 KB (391 words) - 06:02, 4 February 2024 |
The Mark 21 nuclear bomb was a United States thermonuclear gravity bomb first produced in 1955. It was based on the TX 21 "Shrimp" prototype that had... 4 KB (503 words) - 02:27, 17 November 2023 |
The Mark 14 nuclear bomb was a 1950s strategic thermonuclear weapon, the first deployed solid-fuel hydrogen bomb. It was an experimental design, and only... 4 KB (317 words) - 02:57, 24 March 2024 |
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... 33 KB (3,737 words) - 17:24, 29 February 2024 |
Little Boy (redirect from Mark 1 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... 58 KB (7,375 words) - 22:43, 30 April 2024 |
Goudsmit and the German Atomic Bomb, Physics Today Volume 43, Issue 1, 52–60 (1990) Walker, Mark German Work on Nuclear Weapons, Historia Scientiarum;... 73 KB (9,483 words) - 23:25, 16 April 2024 |
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... 21 KB (2,197 words) - 20:19, 9 April 2024 |
1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash (redirect from Goldsboro nuclear bomb) 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... 50 KB (6,422 words) - 23:40, 22 April 2024 |
"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... 17 KB (2,163 words) - 13:30, 1 April 2024 |
Upshot-Knothole Annie (category Nevada Test Site nuclear explosive tests) was nationally televised. The device used in the blast was a 16 kt Mark 5 Nuclear Bomb - a low yield fission weapon, detonated 90 meters / 300 feet above... 4 KB (396 words) - 21:50, 5 September 2023 |
List of aircraft weapons (section Air-dropped bombs) Mark 2 nuclear bomb (USA) Mark 4 nuclear bomb (USA) Mark 5 nuclear bomb (USA) Mark 6 nuclear bomb (USA) Mark 7 nuclear bomb (USA) Mark 8 nuclear bomb... 12 KB (1,531 words) - 09:48, 5 April 2024 |
Tsar Bomba (redirect from Russian monster bomb) 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... 62 KB (7,242 words) - 22:42, 28 April 2024 |
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... 11 KB (918 words) - 14:58, 28 April 2024 |
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... 217 KB (24,998 words) - 02:19, 1 May 2024 |
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... 15 KB (1,374 words) - 17:45, 23 April 2024 |
aircraft augmented with high-altitude capability Mark 5 nuclear bomb (1952–1963); American nuclear bomb Mark V Special Operations Craft (1995), a small marine... 3 KB (450 words) - 19:05, 24 October 2023 |
Slam bomb - 10 ton earthquake bomb, only used for special targets. Tallboy bomb - 5 ton bomb, only used by the Avro Lancaster. BL755 cluster bomb - Withdrawn... 8 KB (672 words) - 10:48, 22 January 2024 |