• A nuclear torpedo is a torpedo armed with a nuclear warhead. The idea behind the nuclear warheads in a torpedo was to create a much bigger explosive blast...
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    The Mark 45 anti-submarine torpedo, a.k.a. ASTOR, was a submarine-launched wire-guided nuclear torpedo designed by the United States Navy for use against...
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    Vehicle Bangalore torpedo Human torpedo List of torpedoes Missile guidance Nuclear torpedo André Rebouças, who supposedly developed a torpedo in the Paraguayan...
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    Soviet naval reactors Nuclear submarine Russia's Channel One Television news broadcast a picture and details of a nuclear-powered torpedo called Status-6 on...
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  • a new intercontinental, nuclear-armed undersea autonomous torpedo. "US says Russia 'developing' undersea nuclear-armed torpedo". CNN. 2018. Retrieved 8...
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    in space. A nuclear torpedo is essentially a torpedo with a warhead attached to it. Russia is currently working on undersea nuclear torpedo, which is referred...
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    Why A Russian Super-Radioactive Atomic Torpedo Isn't The News You Think It Is [1] "Russia reveals nuclear torpedo plan". BBC News. November 12, 2015. Diplomat...
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    1998) was a Soviet Naval officer who is known for preventing a Soviet nuclear torpedo launch during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The course of events that would...
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  • ASTOR nuclear torpedo, the Mark 48 Mod-1 torpedo or the Subroc rocket. Alternatively, at the initiative of Flag Officer Submarines (FOSM), a nuclear warhead...
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    they were under attack and possibly at war—considered firing a T-5 nuclear torpedo at US ships. On October 1, 1962, the submarine B-59, as the flagship...
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  • Cobalt bomb (category Nuclear doomsday)
    the lake that was formed. In 2015, a page from an apparent Russian nuclear torpedo design was leaked. The design was titled "Oceanic Multipurpose System...
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    explosion Shock factor Nuclear torpedo Declassified UK Archived 2022-04-22 at the Wayback Machine Richard Norton-Taylor, UK deployed 31 nuclear weapons during...
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  • version of the Italian Black Shark torpedo. In 2008 France signed a development contract for 93 heavy torpedoes for its nuclear submarines, to be delivered from...
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    Missile Crisis, Soviet patrol submarine B-59 almost launched a nuclear-armed torpedo while under harassment by American naval forces. One of several...
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    variant are American heavyweight submarine-launched torpedoes. They were designed to sink deep-diving nuclear-powered submarines and high-performance surface...
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    conducted three live nuclear torpedo tests including: Test of the T-5 torpedo on September 21, 1955 at Novaya Zemlya. Test of the T-5 torpedo on October 10,...
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    programs, RAT-C was redesigned to use not only a nuclear depth charge but also a homing ASW torpedo. To obtain the accuracy needed, the RAT-C rocket booster...
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    US nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs) was similar. The design was primarily single-hull, with a double hull around the torpedo room...
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    "Russian media: nuclear torpedo can destroy the US, Europe, the world". Business Insider. "Shipping industry should consider nuclear option for decarbonizing:...
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    was intended for nuclear warhead delivery. Later designs reportedly include terminal guidance and conventional warheads. The torpedo steers using four...
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    Underwater explosion (category Nuclear technology)
    source. Nuclear weapons testing Marine engineering Shock factor Nuclear depth bomb Nuclear torpedo Operation Chastise Sobel, Michael I. "Nuclear Waste (class...
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    additional fire control equipment that enabled the use of the Mark 45 nuclear torpedo. This left the boats similar in size and capability to the GUPPY III...
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    the RDS-9 was developed for the T-5 nuclear torpedo. A 3.5 kiloton underwater test was performed with the torpedo on September 21, 1955. The first Soviet...
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  • Project Nobska (category Torpedoes of the United States)
    nuclear weapons until this weapon type was phased out in the late 1980s. New lightweight (Mark 46) and heavyweight (Mark 48) anti-submarine torpedo programs...
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    Cuban Missile Crisis (category Nuclear history of the Soviet Union)
    submarine (B-59) at the blockade line, unaware that it was armed with a nuclear-tipped torpedo with orders that allowed it to be used if the submarine was damaged...
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    A torpedo tube is a cylindrical device for launching torpedoes. There are two main types of torpedo tube: underwater tubes fitted to submarines and some...
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  • November-class submarine (category Nuclear submarines of the Soviet Navy)
    requirement to build an attack submarine with the ability to fire nuclear-tipped torpedoes at coastal American cities. More than 135 Soviet organizations...
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    nuclear armed torpedoes. Nuclear mines for use on land or at sea are also possibilities.[citation needed] The system used to deliver a nuclear weapon to its...
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  • notable military accidents involving nuclear material. Civilian accidents are listed at List of civilian nuclear accidents. For a general discussion of...
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    USS Scorpion (SSN-589) (category Nuclear submarines of the United States Navy)
    atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons has been detected during naval inspections. Likewise, the two nuclear-tipped Mark 45 torpedoes that were lost when...
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