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Modulated neutron initiator (1,737 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

plutonium pit, and is activated by impact of the converging shock wave. One of the key elements in the proper operation of a nuclear weapon is initiation

W91 (247 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

devices may have been manufactured. Notably, the W91 was the last new US nuclear weapon design to reach the point of receiving a model number designation (entering

Variable yield (414 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

dial-a-yield device is featured in the plot of the thriller novel Diablo Mesa. Nuclear weapon design 4.1.8.2 External Neutron Initiators (ENIs), Nuclear Weapons FAQ

W85 (nuclear warhead) (477 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

this was far too large to allow the missile to be used as a tactical nuclear weapon—at the time, 400 kilotons was larger than many strategic warheads. The

Nuclear weapons testing (5,433 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

November 1, 1952 (local date), also by the United States. The largest nuclear weapon ever tested was the Tsar Bomba of the Soviet Union at Novaya Zemlya

Reliable Replacement Warhead (3,053 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

fire-resistant pits, and advanced detonator safety systems. The W89 was also reportedly designed using recycled pits from the earlier W68 nuclear weapon program

Blue Peacock (607 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

from Blue Bunny and originally Brown Bunny, was a British tactical nuclear weapon project in the 1950s. The project's goal was to store a number of ten-kiloton

W84 (800 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

W84 has all eight of the modern types of nuclear weapon safety features identified as desirable in nuclear weapon safety studies. It is the only US nuclear

Exploding-bridgewire detonator (1,527 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

millisecond, a 1 millisecond delay in detonation from one side of a nuclear weapon to the other would be longer than the time the detonation would take

Critical mass (2,937 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

purity, temperature, and surroundings. The concept is important in nuclear weapon design. When a nuclear chain reaction in a mass of fissile material

List of nuclear weapons (3,737 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

(1957–1966) B41 nuclear bomb (Mark 41) (1960–1976); highest yield US nuclear weapon (25 Megatons). B43 nuclear bomb (Mark 43) (1961–1991) B46 nuclear bomb

Thermonuclear weapon (12,397 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

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

W89 (574 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

fire-resistant pits, and advanced detonator safety systems. The W89 was also reportedly designed using recycled pits from the earlier W68 nuclear weapon program

Enriched uranium (4,983 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

(HEU) has a 20% or higher concentration of 235U. The fissile uranium in nuclear weapon primaries usually contains 85% or more of 235U known as weapons grade

Mark 12 nuclear bomb (322 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the first deployed nuclear weapon to have used beryllium as a reflector-tamper inside the implosion assembly (see nuclear weapon design). It is believed

Little Boy (7,375 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 during World War II , making it the first nuclear weapon used in warfare. The bomb was dropped by the Boeing B-29 Superfortress

Mark 6 nuclear bomb (431 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Mark 6 nuclear warhead List of nuclear weapons 1958 Mars Bluff B-47 nuclear weapon loss incident Glen George McDuff (2018-08-22). Army Nukes (Report).

Operation Crossroads (13,422 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Crossroads was a pair of nuclear weapon tests conducted by the United States at Bikini Atoll in mid-1946. They were the first nuclear weapon tests since Trinity

Crater (1,602 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

97. Print Sublette, Carey. "The Effects of Underground Explosions". Nuclear Weapon Archive. Retrieved 21 June 2011. Kressmann, Jeremy (2008-03-25). "Turkmenistan's

Project 56 (nuclear test) (1,047 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

amount of radioactivity released. Project 57 Operation Roller Coaster Nuclear weapon design Hansen, Chuck, "Swords of Armageddon" (CD-ROM & download available)

High explosive violent reaction (575 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Probabilistic Risk Assessment methodologies to understand and enhance nuclear-weapon-safety over a life cycle. Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) generally

Nuclear weapons of the United States (9,942 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

produced more than 70,000 nuclear warheads since 1945, more than all other nuclear weapon states combined. Until November 1962, the vast majority of U.S. nuclear

Nuclear arms race (6,437 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

production on nearly the same scale as the two superpowers. The first nuclear weapon was created by the United States of America during the Second World

Diefenbunker (1,742 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Cold War. Designed in the 1950s to withstand all but a direct hit by a nuclear weapon, it was intended to shelter key political and military personnel during

Reactor-grade plutonium (5,754 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

pursued creating a nuclear weapon with an isotopic composition similar to modern, high burnup, reactor grade plutonium. All nuclear weapon states have taken

Mark 39 nuclear bomb (1,909 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Carey (30 March 2023). "Complete List of All U.S. Nuclear Weapons". Nuclear Weapon Archive. Sandia National Laboratories (January 1968). "History of the

Bockscar (3,030 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the United States Army Air Forces B-29 bomber that dropped a Fat Man nuclear weapon over the Japanese city of Nagasaki during World War II in the second –

Swedish nuclear weapons program (10,716 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

construction of the nuclear weapon itself. The contributing factor for this estimate was the misestimated critical mass of a plutonium pit, believing it to

Defence Nuclear Material Transport Operations (2,426 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

vehicles have cargo bodies designed to provide extra protection to the nuclear weapon containers. The Mark III vehicle introduced in 2011, which replaced

Mark 24 nuclear bomb (405 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

weapon's pit into the implosion assembly. A Mark 24 casing is on display in the Castle Air Museum in Atwater, CA. List of nuclear weapons Nuclear weapon design

Project Pluto (5,588 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

defenses and carry more and larger nuclear warheads (up to sixteen with nuclear weapon yields of up to 10 megatonnes of TNT (42 PJ)) and deliver them with

Neutron bomb (6,668 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

a fission reaction (1–2 MeV). Technically speaking, every low-yield nuclear weapon is a radiation weapon, including non-enhanced variants. All nuclear

SM-65D Atlas (5,052 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

first used as an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) to deliver a nuclear weapon payload on a suborbital trajectory. It was later developed as a launch

Nuclear Explosions for the National Economy (1,696 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

nuclear explosions, the first five programs designating various phases of nuclear weapon development. All together, the Program 7 conducted 115 nuclear explosions

Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Science & Technology (3,280 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

in 1979. The FNPG was involved in the designing of a country's first nuclear weapon The EMM Group was founded by Dr. N.M. Butt in 1966 that had produced

W56 (1,902 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

United States and weapons of mass destruction "Operation Dominic". The Nuclear Weapon Archive: A Guide to Nuclear Weapons. Retrieved 2021-05-23. History of

Uranium (12,403 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

as a fuel in the nuclear power industry and in Little Boy, the first nuclear weapon used in war. An ensuing arms race during the Cold War between the United

1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision (1,452 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

landing the bomber. Some sources describe the bomb as a functional nuclear weapon, but others refer to it as disabled. If it had a plutonium nuclear core

Operation Plumbbob (1,928 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

weapons safety experiments were conducted to study the possibility of a nuclear weapon detonation during an accident. On July 26, 1957, a safety experiment

KISS principle (1,021 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

by Ben R. Rich, 1995, National Academies Press, Washington, DC, p. 13. Pit & Quarry, Vol. 63, July 1970, p.172, quote: "as in every other step of the

Environmental impact of nuclear power (10,980 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

however all nuclear weapons states derived the material for their first nuclear weapon from (non-power) research reactors or dedicated "production reactors"

LGM-30 Minuteman (11,356 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Review: Nuclear Weapon Characteristics Handbook (PDF) (Report). Sandia National Labs. September 1990. p. 65. SAND90-1238. Sandia Weapon Review: Nuclear Weapon

The Changing Land (1,320 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

black magic spells. Using one of these spells is like setting off a nuclear weapon, so will only use them as a last resort. He knows enough magic to help

Lists of environmental topics (1,917 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

nuclear test sites List of nuclear waste treatment technologies List of nuclear weapon test locations List of nuclear weapons tests List of oil and gas fields

Silverplate (3,605 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the aircraft modification project for the B-29 to enable it to drop a nuclear weapon, Silverplate eventually came to identify the training and operational

Nuclear power (21,052 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

research, just on the cusp of World War II, for the development of a nuclear weapon. In the United States, these research efforts led to the creation of

Office for Nuclear Regulation (1,815 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

materials. ONR responsibility includes assessing the response systems for nuclear weapon accidents at HMNB Clyde and RNAD Coulport, in Argyll, Scotland. Since

Nuclear reactor (10,441 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

halted nuclear dealings with India following the 1974 Smiling Buddha nuclear weapon test. Reaktor Bolshoy Moschnosti Kanalniy (High Power Channel Reactor)

Anti-nuclear movement in Australia (6,593 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

legacy: British nuclear weapons testing in Australia. "Treaty banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and Under Water ATS 26 of 1963"

Hudswell Clarke (1,819 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

closely involved in various secret programmes, including the British nuclear weapon programme. The airframe (casing) for the first British nuclear bomb

United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (1,964 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

materials for hydrogen bombs. Between 1952 and 1958 UKAEA carried out 21 nuclear weapon tests in Australia and the Pacific. Following the Atomic Energy Authority

Glossary of video game terms (30,875 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

context of video games, "nuking" may also describe the act of using a nuclear weapon while playing the game, such as the atomic bomb in Call of Duty games

Lop Nur (3,415 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

belonging to two different time periods. The first type of burial featured shaft pit graves, some of which had poles at either end to mark east and west. Bodies

Enola Gay (4,939 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

after World War II—giving them the primary ability to function as nuclear "weapon delivery" aircraft. These modifications included an extensively modified

Underwater explosion (2,818 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

original on 25 May 2012. Retrieved 31 May 2012. "Is it possible to test a nuclear weapon without producing radioactive fallout?". How stuff works. 11 October

Lithium (13,448 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Retrieved 1 September 2015. Graphed at File:SolarSystemAbundances.jpg Nuclear Weapon Design. Federation of American Scientists (21 October 1998). fas.org

Isotopes of caesium (1,862 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

continuously removes xenon from its fuel, a fast neutron reactor, or a nuclear weapon. The xenon pit is a phenomenon of excess neutron absorption through 135 Xe

Quatermass (TV serial) (4,092 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

success led to two sequels, Quatermass II (1955) and Quatermass and the Pit (1958). These three Quatermass serials are seen today as seminal 1950s television

Marine Corps Security Force Regiment (3,628 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

and Nuclear Counter-Proliferation (NCP). RTT units are attached to Nuclear Weapon Stations aboard US naval installations and do not deploy. Whereas FAST

Game design (5,827 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

house, casino games are designed to be easy for croupiers to operate and for pit managers to oversee. The two most fundamental rules of casino game design

Rockwell B-1 Lancer (12,751 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

prevent nuclear weapon pylons from being attached, removal of weapons bay wiring bundles for arming nuclear weapons, and destruction of nuclear weapon pylons

Comix Zone (3,422 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

weapons factory hidden on a derelict ship and Alissa attempts to defuse a nuclear weapon that Mortus and the Mutants plan on using to wipe out the New World

JASON (advisory group) (4,195 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

pamphlet on the Jasons by physicist Charles Schwartz Lab Chiefs Find U.S. Nuclear-Weapon Update Approach Adequate, But Not Ideal, July 16, 2010 article at Nuclear

Safety-critical system (1,816 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

mode (i.e. turn combustion off when they detect faults). Famously, nuclear weapon systems that launch-on-command are fail-safe, because if the communications

Russia under Vladimir Putin (24,935 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

seek the de-escalation AFTER nuclear weapon usage, we seek the de-escalation BEFORE nuclear weapon usage. AFTER nuclear weapon usage, we'll just ruin you

Chernobyl disaster (29,861 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

1950s following the first nuclear weapon testing. Two maxima can be identified, the first about 1965 caused by nuclear weapon testing, and the second corresponding

Explosive (8,326 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

device Insensitive munition Largest artificial non-nuclear explosions Nuclear weapon Orica; largest supplier of commercial explosives TM 31-210 Improvised

List of Flashpoint (comics) characters (16,052 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Arrow Industries nuclear weapon to bomb western Europe. Later, Hal is ready to fly on the F-35 with the Green Arrow nuclear weapon attempting to destroy

Pigging (3,435 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The World Is Not Enough, where a pig was used to carry and detonate a nuclear weapon in a pipeline. A pig was also used as a plot device in the Tony Hillerman

Index of recreational dive sites (6,525 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Gulf of California USS Saratoga – US Navy aircraft carrier sunk by nuclear weapon testing at Bikini atoll Sardinia Bay Marine Protected Area – Marine

Sellafield (13,410 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

oxide particulates. In the effort to build the independent British nuclear weapon in the 1940s and 1950s, diluted radioactive waste was discharged by

Nuclear activities in Brazil (20,255 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

global Treaty does not represent a commitment toward disarmament for nuclear weapon countries; 2. France and China do not participate in the negotiations;

United States (24,289 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Atlantic Monthly. C (December 1907): 812–818. The Pit Boss (February 26, 2021). "The Pit Stop: The American Automotive Industry Is Packed With History"

Albuquerque, New Mexico (15,279 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

non-Hispanic white. On April 11, 1950, a USAF B-29 bomber carrying a nuclear weapon crashed into a mountain near Manzano Base. On May 22, 1957, a B-36 accidentally

Radiocarbon dating (13,848 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Bowman (1995), pp. 43–49. Aitken (1990), pp. 71–72. "Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and Under Water". US Department

Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird (13,940 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Kärnvapensäkra bunkern styrde flygplanen" [TV: Aircraft controlled from nuclear weapon secured bunker]. Kundservice (in Swedish). Sweden. 2 May 2017. Archived

Joker (character) (20,621 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

(1987) the character kidnaps Lois Lane, distracting Superman with a nuclear weapon. The story is notable for the Joker taking on a (relative) god and the

Environmental impact of electricity generation (8,337 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

however all nuclear weapons states derived the material for their first nuclear weapon from (non-power) research reactors or dedicated "production reactors"

Nuclear fuel cycle (9,185 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Uranium-232 which makes it harder to use in a normal, pre-assembled nuclear weapon which is stable over long periods of time (unfortunately drawbacks are

Xenon (11,984 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

molecular weight and inert chemistry is desirable. A by-product of nuclear weapon testing is the release of radioactive xenon-133 and xenon-135. These

Louisiana (22,578 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

November 26, 1958, at Chennault Air Force Base, a USAF B-47 bomber with a nuclear weapon on board developed a fire while on the ground. The aircraft wreckage

2018 North Korea–United States Singapore Summit (16,936 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

fighters, and DPRK is demanding USA safety guarantee for giving up nuclear weapon programs of Pyongyang. The media source 38 North, an American agency

101955 Bennu (8,154 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

equivalent (for comparison, TNT equivalent of Tsar Bomba, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever tested, was approximately 54 megatons, and that of the Tunguska

Hanford Engineer Works (14,306 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Laboratory, had given up all hope of getting the Thin Man gun-type nuclear weapon to work. Los Alamos had discovered that reactor-bred plutonium contained

Greenpeace (15,649 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

site. In the late 1960s, the U.S. had planned its Cannikin underground nuclear weapon test in the tectonically unstable island of Amchitka in Alaska; the

Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament (9,825 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

not entered into force, no nation other than North Korea has tested a nuclear weapon since 1998. Since 1986, the United States' nuclear stockpile has been

List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (1955–1959) (52,845 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

week), there was some question as to whether the B-36 was armed with a nuclear weapon, but there is no evidence to support this. 27 May A Boeing B-47E-10-DT

Nuclear labor issues (12,423 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

levels of certain disease rates among workers. A plutonium core for a nuclear weapon, nicknamed the "Demon Core" was involved in two accidents at LANL in

Timeline of Russian innovation (17,009 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

activated thermobaric weapon, the most powerful conventional (non-nuclear) weapon in the world. The bomb was successfully field-tested in the late evening

Liquid fluoride thorium reactor (14,151 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

what makes it so attractive today: thorium is difficult to turn into a nuclear weapon.[unreliable source?] The LFTR resists diversion of its fuel to nuclear

Deaths in January 2021 (24,593 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

suspension Prominent Physicist Khalatnikov, Involved In Building 1st Soviet Nuclear Weapon, Dies James L Larson Cricket West Indies pays tribute to Vivalyn Latty-Scott

List of Dune characters (29,570 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

react violently, resulting in an explosion with the same effects of a nuclear weapon. Norma next studies Holtzman's original field equations to find a way

List of Trinity Blood characters (14,719 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

manga, he is threatened with torture after his failure to activate a nuclear weapon underneath Byzantium; evidently not due to said failure but because

Radiation effects from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster (33,990 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

found in all samples, which is to be expected since plutonium from the nuclear weapon tests of the 1950s and '60s is found everywhere on the planet. The highest

List of Revolution episodes (3,688 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Using Neville's information, the rebels find that Randall has built a nuclear weapon, which Randall takes back to Philadelphia by car using the pendants

List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (1950–1954) (41,766 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

97th Bomb Wing out of Biggs AFB, Texas, carrying a nuclear weapon bomb casing (but no fissile pit), stalls at 7,000 feet (2,100 m) at about 1454 hrs.

Environmental racism in Russia (7,674 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

2016. Stevenson, Struan. "The Tsar Bomba—the largest, most powerful nuclear weapon ever made." Stalin's Legacy: The Soviet War on Nature. Edinburgh: Birlinn

Greenside Mine (16,039 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Retrieved 9 February 2015. U. S. State Department (2004). "Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and Under Water". U. S. Department

Special effects of Starship Troopers (8,779 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

lubricant plus over 300,000 rounds of blank ammunition. The miniature nuclear weapon launcher was modelled after a 1950s German Panzer tank faust missile

May 1974 (15,933 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

2023. "Smiling Buddha: 1974". India's Nuclear Weapons Program. The Nuclear Weapon Archive. 8 November 2001. Retrieved 5 October 2023. "WHITLAM'S PARTY