nuclear weapon

explosive device that gets its destructive force from nuclear reactions

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Countries:

United Kingdom:

ET.317 - WE.177 - weapon functional class - Mark 7 nuclear bomb - B28 - B43 - B57 - tactical nuclear weapon - strategic nuclear weapon - suitcase nuke - thermonuclear weapon

Poland:

ET.317 - WE.177 - weapon functional class - Mark 7 nuclear bomb - B28 - B43 - B57 - tactical nuclear weapon - strategic nuclear weapon - suitcase nuke - thermonuclear weapon

Historical Countries:

Kingdom of Great Britain:

ET.317 - WE.177 - weapon functional class - Mark 7 nuclear bomb - B28 - B43 - B57 - tactical nuclear weapon - strategic nuclear weapon - suitcase nuke - thermonuclear weapon

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland:

ET.317 - WE.177 - weapon functional class - Mark 7 nuclear bomb - B28 - B43 - B57 - tactical nuclear weapon - strategic nuclear weapon - suitcase nuke - thermonuclear weapon

1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

AN-52

1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Air-Sol Moyenne Portée

1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

1945-08-09T00:00:00Z

1945-08-06T00:00:00Z

1949-01-01T00:00:00Z

1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

1949-08-29T00:00:00Z

1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

1954-10-19T00:00:00Z

1955-11-06T00:00:00Z

1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

2030-01-01T00:00:00Z

1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

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Frameless

A Labelled Diagram of how an atom/fission bomb works.

Annie event of Operation Upshot-Knothole, 1953.

ASDS on USS Georgia (SSGN 729)

ASV-3 ASSET Lifting Body

Bomb Test

Castle Bravo detonation, 1954

Een International M139D 5-tons 6x6-lanceerauto met een Honest John-raket, een een ongeleide raket tegen gronddoelen, met een maximum bereik van ongeveer 35 km (2044 061252)

First page of MAUD committee report.

Launch of Shenzhou 13, China

Little Boy

NuclearCalculations2014

nuclear weapons

Overzicht van voertuigen behorende bij de lanceerinrichting voor de Honest John-raket (2155 007716)

Speech titled Psychological Factors in Atomic Warfare

Test6 3

The Baker explosion

The Fat Man nuclear bomb was an example of a strategic nuclear weapon.

The number of nuclear warheads by country in 2024, based on an estimation by the Federation of American Scientsts.

W89 and W91 nuclear warheads

Worldmap List of countries with nuclear weapons

Грибообразное облако от бомбы «Малыш» над провинцией Хиросима в Японии в 1945 году. Создано Вооруженными силами США и ВВС США.

Type	Date	Description	Keywords	Notes	Source

link		Applied Optics Multipass reconfiguration of the HELEN Nd:glass laser at the Atomic Weapons Establishment^@			Wikidata
link		Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Atomic Weapons and American Policy^@			Wikidata
link		Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists North Korean nuclear capabilities, 2018^@			Wikidata
link		Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists United States nuclear forces, 2018^@			Wikidata
link		Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Chinese nuclear forces, 2018^@			Wikidata
link		Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Pakistani nuclear forces, 2018^@			Wikidata
link		Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Russian nuclear forces, 2019^@			Wikidata
link		Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists The British nuclear stockpile, 1953–2013^@			Wikidata
link		Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Israeli nuclear weapons, 2014^@			Wikidata
link		Freebase entry^@			Wikidata
link		Health Physics A brief history of people and events related to atomic weapons testing in the Marshall Islands^@			Wikidata
link		Historical Records of Australian Science A Political Inconvenience: Australian Scientists at the British Atomic Weapons Tests, 1952-53^@			Wikidata
link		Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene Beryllium Exposure Control Program at the Cardiff Atomic Weapons Establishment in the United Kingdom^@			Wikidata
link		Journal of Strategic Studies To avert impending disaster: American military plans to use atomic weapons during the Korean War^@			Wikidata
link		Nature Effects of Atomic Weapons^@			Wikidata
link		Nature Atomic Weapons^@			Wikidata
link		Nature Information on Atomic Weapons^@			Wikidata
link		Nature Two Nuclear Reactors at the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment^@			Wikidata
link		Nature Atomic Weapons Research Establishment: Dr. Nyman Levin^@			Wikidata
link		Nature Nuclear weapons physics: Welcome to the Atomic Weapons Establishment^@			Wikidata
link		Physics in Perspective A Physicist in the Corridors of Power: P. M. S. Blackett's Opposition to Atomic Weapons Following the War^@			Wikidata
link		Radiation Protection Dosimetry ESTIMATES OF RADIATION DOSES TO THE SKIN FOR PEOPLE CAMPED AT WALLATINNA DURING THE UK TOTEM 1 ATOMIC WEAPONS TEST.^@			Wikidata
link		Science of the Total Environment Solid-solution partitioning of plutonium in surface waters at the Atomic Weapons Establishment Aldermaston (UK).^@			Wikidata
link		The BMJ Mortality of employees of the Atomic Weapons Establishment, 1951-82.^@			Wikidata
link		War & Society Atomic Weapons and the Problem of Australian Security, 1946–1957^@			Wikidata
link		Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1^@			Wikidata
weapon		8U69	tactical nuclear weapon, weapon model, google		Wikidata
weapon	1972	AN-52	unguided bomb, France, weapon model, nuclear weapon		Wikidata
weapon	1986	Air-Sol Moyenne Portée	air-to-surface missile, nuclear missile, cruise missile, Aérospatiale, weapon model		Wikidata
weapon		B28	United Kingdom, unguided bomb, Canada, United States of America, thermonuclear weapon, weapon model		Wikidata
weapon		B43	United Kingdom, unguided bomb, United States of America, aerial bomb, weapon model, nuclear weapon		Wikidata
weapon	1962	B53	unguided bomb, United States of America, aerial bomb, United States Atomic Energy Commission, weapon model, nuclear weapon		Wikidata
weapon		B57	United Kingdom, unguided bomb, Canada, United States of America, tactical nuclear weapon, aerial bomb, weapon model		Wikidata
weapon		B61 Family	weapon model, nuclear weapon		Wikidata
weapon		B61	unguided bomb, United States of America, tactical nuclear weapon, thermonuclear weapon, Pantex Plant, weapon model		Wikidata
weapon		B90	unguided bomb, aerial bomb, weapon model, nuclear weapon		Wikidata
weapon		Davy Crockett Weapon System	tactical nuclear weapon, recoilless rifle, weapon model		Wikidata
weapon		ET.317	United Kingdom, thermonuclear weapon, weapon model		Wikidata
weapon	1945	Fat Man	United States of America, nuclear bomb, weapon model		Wikidata
weapon		German atomic bomb	nuclear bomb, weapon family		Wikidata
weapon		JL-3	People's Republic of China, nuclear weapon, submarine-launched ballistic missile, intercontinental ballistic missile, weapon model, google		Wikidata
weapon	1945	Little Boy	United States of America, gun-type fission weapon, nuclear bomb, weapon model		Wikidata
weapon		M65	nuclear artillery, weapon model		Wikidata
weapon	1949	Mark 4 nuclear bomb	aerial bomb, weapon model, nuclear weapon		Wikidata
weapon		Mark 5 nuclear bomb	nuclear weapon, aerial bomb, weapon model		Wikidata
weapon		Mark 7 nuclear bomb	United Kingdom, United States of America, aerial bomb, weapon model, nuclear weapon		Wikidata
weapon		Mark 10 nuclear bomb	gun-type fission weapon, weapon model		Wikidata
weapon		Mark 21 nuclear bomb	aerial bomb, thermonuclear weapon, weapon model		Wikidata
weapon		Mark 27	unguided bomb, aerial bomb, thermonuclear weapon, weapon model		Wikidata
weapon		Mark 36 nuclear bomb	thermonuclear weapon, weapon model		Wikidata
weapon	1958	Mark 45 torpedo	torpedo, United States of America, Westinghouse Electric Corporation, weapon model, nuclear weapon		Wikidata
weapon		Mark 90	Nuclear depth bomb, aerial bomb, weapon model		Wikidata
weapon		Natasha	Soviet Union, nuclear bomb, weapon model		Wikidata
weapon		Q10326574	nuclear bomb, weapon model, google		Wikidata
weapon	1949	RDS-1	Soviet Union, aerial bomb, weapon model, nuclear weapon		Wikidata
weapon		RDS-2	Soviet Union, nuclear bomb, weapon model, google		Wikidata
weapon	1954	RDS-4	Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, Soviet Union, aerial bomb, nuclear bomb, weapon model		Wikidata
weapon		RDS-5	Soviet Union, nuclear bomb, weapon model, google		Wikidata
weapon	1954	RDS-9	Soviet Union, nuclear bomb, weapon model, nuclear weapons test, google		Wikidata
weapon	1955	RDS-27	Soviet Union, nuclear bomb, weapon model, google		Wikidata
weapon		RDS-37	Soviet Union, aerial bomb, thermonuclear weapon, weapon model		Wikidata
weapon		SSBS	nuclear missile, intermediate-range ballistic missile, weapon model		Wikidata
weapon		Starling	nuclear bomb, weapon model		Wikidata
weapon		TN 60	nuclear weapon, aerial bomb, weapon model		Wikidata
weapon		Thin Man	nuclear bomb, weapon model		Wikidata
weapon	1956	Tsar Bomba	Soviet Union, aerial bomb, thermonuclear weapon, former entity, weapon model		Wikidata
weapon		Violet Club	nuclear weapon, aerial bomb, weapon model		Wikidata
weapon		W9	nuclear artillery shell, aerial bomb, weapon model		Wikidata
weapon		W19	nuclear artillery shell, aerial bomb, weapon model		Wikidata
weapon		W30	weapon model, nuclear weapon		Wikidata
weapon		W33	nuclear artillery shell, aerial bomb, weapon model		Wikidata
weapon		W39	aerial bomb, weapon model, nuclear weapon		Wikidata
weapon		W47	thermonuclear weapon, weapon model		Wikidata
weapon		W48	nuclear artillery shell, weapon model		Wikidata
weapon		W53	thermonuclear weapon, weapon model, google		Wikidata
weapon		W62	thermonuclear weapon, weapon model		Wikidata
weapon		W76	thermonuclear weapon, Pantex Plant, weapon model		Wikidata
weapon		W78	thermonuclear weapon, weapon model		Wikidata
weapon		W79	nuclear artillery shell, weapon model		Wikidata
weapon		W82	tactical nuclear weapon, weapon model		Wikidata
weapon		W87	thermonuclear weapon, weapon model		Wikidata
weapon		W88	thermonuclear weapon, Rocky Flats Plant, weapon model		Wikidata
weapon		W89	thermonuclear weapon, weapon model		Wikidata
weapon		W91	warhead, thermonuclear weapon, weapon model		Wikidata
weapon	2030	W93	nuclear warhead, thermonuclear weapon, weapon model, United States of America		Wikidata
weapon		WE.177	United Kingdom, strategic nuclear weapon, tactical nuclear weapon, Atomic Weapons Establishment, weapon model		Wikidata
weapon		cobalt bomb	salted bomb, weapon functional class		Wikidata
weapon		fission-fusion-fission bomb	weapon functional class, thermonuclear weapon, google		Wikidata
weapon		gun-type fission weapon	weapon functional class, nuclear weapon		Wikidata
weapon		improvised nuclear device	hypothetical entity, weapon functional class, nuclear weapon		Wikidata
weapon		meson bomb	nuclear weapon, weapon functional class, google		Wikidata
weapon		neutron bomb	weapon functional class, nuclear weapon		Wikidata
weapon		nuclear artillery shell	shell, weapon functional class, nuclear weapon, google		Wikidata
weapon	1952	nuclear artillery	tactical nuclear weapon, artillery, weapon functional class		Wikidata
weapon		nuclear bomb	bomb, weapon functional class, nuclear weapon, google		Wikidata
weapon		nuclear bomb	nuclear weapon, weapon functional class, bomb, google		Wikidata
weapon		nuclear missile	missile, weapon functional class, nuclear weapon, google		Wikidata
weapon		salted bomb	radiological weapon, weapon functional class, nuclear weapon		Wikidata
weapon		strategic nuclear weapon	weapon functional class, nuclear weapon		Wikidata
weapon		suitcase nuke	tactical nuclear weapon, weapon functional class, nuclear weapon		Wikidata
weapon		tactical nuclear weapon	weapon functional class, nuclear weapon		Wikidata
weapon		thermonuclear weapon	nuclear explosive, weapon functional class, nuclear weapon		Wikidata
image		A Labelled Diagram of how an atom/fission bomb works.			Wikimedia
image	1953	Annie event of Operation Upshot-Knothole, 1953.			Wikimedia
image		ASDS on USS Georgia (SSGN 729)			Wikimedia
image		ASV-3 ASSET Lifting Body			Wikimedia
image	1954	Bomb Test			Wikimedia
image		Castle Bravo detonation, 1954			Wikimedia
image		Een International M139D 5-tons 6x6-lanceerauto met een Honest John-raket, een een ongeleide raket tegen gronddoelen, met een maximum bereik van ongeveer 35 km (2044 061252)			Wikimedia
image		First page of MAUD committee report.			Wikimedia
image	2021	Launch of Shenzhou 13, China			Wikimedia
image		Little Boy			Wikimedia
image		NuclearCalculations2014			Wikimedia
image		nuclear weapons			Wikimedia
image	1960	Overzicht van voertuigen behorende bij de lanceerinrichting voor de Honest John-raket (2155 007716)			Wikimedia
image		presented by Colonel James P. Cooney, M.C. at a meeting of the Radiological Society of America. - NARA - 281582 (page 1)		https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Speech titled Psychological Factors in Atomic Warfare	presented by Colonel James P. Cooney, M.C. at a meeting of the Radiological Society of America. - NARA - 281582 (page 1).gif
image		presented by Colonel James P. Cooney, M.C. at a meeting of the Radiological Society of America. - NARA - 281582 (page 2)		https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Speech titled Psychological Factors in Atomic Warfare	presented by Colonel James P. Cooney, M.C. at a meeting of the Radiological Society of America. - NARA - 281582 (page 2).gif
image		presented by Colonel James P. Cooney, M.C. at a meeting of the Radiological Society of America. - NARA - 281582 (page 3)		https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Speech titled Psychological Factors in Atomic Warfare	presented by Colonel James P. Cooney, M.C. at a meeting of the Radiological Society of America. - NARA - 281582 (page 3).gif
image		presented by Colonel James P. Cooney, M.C. at a meeting of the Radiological Society of America. - NARA - 281582 (page 4)		https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Speech titled Psychological Factors in Atomic Warfare	presented by Colonel James P. Cooney, M.C. at a meeting of the Radiological Society of America. - NARA - 281582 (page 4).gif
image		presented by Colonel James P. Cooney, M.C. at a meeting of the Radiological Society of America. - NARA - 281582 (page 5)		https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Speech titled Psychological Factors in Atomic Warfare	presented by Colonel James P. Cooney, M.C. at a meeting of the Radiological Society of America. - NARA - 281582 (page 5).gif
image		Test6 3			Wikimedia
image	1946	The Baker explosion			Wikimedia
image		The Fat Man nuclear bomb was an example of a strategic nuclear weapon.			Wikimedia
image		The number of nuclear warheads by country in 2024, based on an estimation by the Federation of American Scientsts.			Wikimedia
image		W89 and W91 nuclear warheads			Wikimedia
image		Worldmap List of countries with nuclear weapons			Wikimedia
image	1945	Грибообразное облако от бомбы «Малыш» над провинцией Хиросима в Японии в 1945 году. Создано Вооруженными силами США и ВВС США.			Wikimedia

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