W54) and 50 megatons for the Tsar Bomba (see TNT equivalent). A thermonuclear weapon weighing as little as 600 pounds (270 kg) can release energy equal... 114 KB (12,992 words) - 23:06, 22 April 2024 |
Castle Bravo (section Weapon history) Castle Bravo was the first in a series of high-yield thermonuclear weapon design tests conducted by the United States at Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands... 74 KB (9,041 words) - 11:40, 24 April 2024 |
of fission weapons, and by 1979 were perhaps in a position to test a more advanced small tactical nuclear weapon or thermonuclear weapon trigger design... 145 KB (16,274 words) - 15:53, 24 April 2024 |
Neutron bomb (redirect from Enhanced radiation weapon) officially defined as a type of enhanced radiation weapon (ERW), is a low-yield thermonuclear weapon designed to maximize lethal neutron radiation in the... 63 KB (6,668 words) - 19:16, 14 April 2024 |
yield approximately equivalent to 20 kilotons of TNT. The first thermonuclear weapon technology test of an engineered device, codenamed Ivy Mike, was... 64 KB (5,433 words) - 21:01, 18 March 2024 |
Nuclear fusion (redirect from Thermonuclear fusion) forms of thermonuclear fusion: uncontrolled, in which the resulting energy is released in an uncontrolled manner, as it is in thermonuclear weapons ("hydrogen... 89 KB (9,987 words) - 22:04, 22 April 2024 |
History of the Teller–Ulam design (redirect from Thermonuclear sparkplug) The Teller–Ulam design is a technical concept behind modern thermonuclear weapons, also known as hydrogen bombs. The design – the details of which are... 58 KB (6,736 words) - 16:41, 9 April 2024 |
stockpile of Israeli nuclear weapons range from 60 to as many as 400. It is unknown if Israel's reported thermonuclear weapons are in the megaton range.... 22 KB (2,155 words) - 22:12, 24 April 2024 |
Cobalt bomb (redirect from Cobalt weapon) trigger/primary with a fusion–fission secondary) thermonuclear weapon is thus automatically a weapon of radiological warfare, but its fallout decays much... 26 KB (3,238 words) - 07:34, 16 April 2024 |
a variation of the standard Teller–Ulam design for thermonuclear weapons. In a thermonuclear weapon such as the W88, nuclear fission in the primary stage... 12 KB (1,133 words) - 22:11, 23 April 2024 |
versions of an American thermonuclear weapon, which were in service from 1957 to 1966. The Mark 39 design was a thermonuclear bomb and had a yield of... 15 KB (1,909 words) - 16:57, 22 April 2024 |
Doomsday device (redirect from Doomsday weapon) since become the more popular phrase. Since the 1954 Castle Bravo thermonuclear weapon test demonstrated the feasibility of making arbitrarily large nuclear... 7 KB (811 words) - 14:55, 26 February 2024 |
Nuclear explosion (redirect from Thermonuclear explosion) American Fat Man plutonium implosion design. The United States' first thermonuclear weapon, Ivy Mike, was detonated on 1 November 1952 at Enewetak Atoll and... 16 KB (1,898 words) - 19:40, 21 April 2024 |
Tsar Bomba (redirect from Largest Nuclear Weapon) alphanumerical designation "AN602", was a thermonuclear aerial bomb, and the most powerful nuclear weapon ever created and tested. The Soviet physicist... 62 KB (7,242 words) - 12:55, 25 April 2024 |
entire device larger and heavier. The primary stage of a modern thermonuclear weapon may instead use a lightweight beryllium reflector, which is also... 22 KB (3,814 words) - 04:40, 12 May 2023 |
A weapon of mass destruction (WMD) is a biological, chemical, radiological, nuclear, or any other weapon that can kill or significantly harm many people... 92 KB (9,256 words) - 05:15, 10 April 2024 |
test of a deployable (solid fuel) thermonuclear weapon, and also (accidentally)[citation needed] the largest weapon ever tested by the United States (15... 68 KB (6,613 words) - 02:39, 21 April 2024 |