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Parent topics
- United States nuclear weapons [r]: All U.S. nuclear weapons, past or present, in deployment, production, or approved for production; not including experimental devices [e]
- Fusion device [r]: An explosive device, whether used as a weapon or for other purposes, which depends for most of its explosive power on the release of energy by combining atomic nuclei [e]
Subtopics
- One-point safe criterion [r]: A design goal for nuclear weapons, to ensure that a single built-in detonator firing, or an external explosive charge fired next to the weapon, could not result in a nuclear yield greater than two kilograms TNT equivalent [e]
- Permissive Action Link [r]: Built into a nuclear weapon, a component that requires an external code, not known to the crew but provided through the chain of command, to enable detonation in combination with other safety features [e]
- Red Beard (nuclear weapon) [r]: U.K. 15-25 KT nuclear gravity bomb intended as a tactical nuclear weapon [e]
Replacements
- B61 (nuclear weapon) [r]: A thermonuclear fusion device implemented as a "tactical" gravity bomb that has a low to medium variable yield; the B61-11 version has limited ground penetration capability [e]
- B83 (nuclear weapon) [r]: A thermonuclear gravity bomb whose variable yield can be set to the highest (1-2 MtSymbol error) of any deployed U.S. nuclear weapon; uses LX-17 explosive [e]