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American thermonuclear bomb
The Mark 15 nuclear bomb, or Mk-15, was a 1950s American thermonuclear bomb, the first relatively lightweight (7,600 lb (3,400 kg)) thermonuclear bomb created
Mark_15_nuclear_bomb
Thermonuclear warhead
The Mark 39 nuclear bomb and W39 nuclear warhead were versions of an American thermonuclear weapon, which were in service from 1957 to 1966. The Mark 39
Mark_39_nuclear_bomb
Nuclear bomb
Mark 7 "Thor" (or Mk-7) was the first tactical fission bomb adopted by US armed forces.[citation needed] It was also the first weapon to be delivered
Mark_7_nuclear_bomb
The Mark 10 nuclear bomb was a proposed American nuclear bomb based on the earlier Mark 8 nuclear bomb design. The Mark 10, like the Mark 8, is a gun-type
Mark_10_nuclear_bomb
Air-dropped nuclear fission weapon
Mark 4 nuclear bomb was an American implosion-type nuclear bomb based on the earlier Mark 3 Fat Man design, used in the Trinity test and the bombing of
Mark_4_nuclear_bomb
American hydrogen bomb
of nuclear weapons List of military nuclear accidents Castle Bravo Teller-Ulam design Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mark 17 nuclear bomb. Parsons
Mark_17_nuclear_bomb
US Air Force incident involving a nuclear bomb
which the United States Air Force lost a 7,600-pound (3,400 kg) Mark 15 nuclear bomb in the waters of Tybee Island near Savannah, Georgia, United States
1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision
1958_Tybee_Island_mid-air_collision
U.S. atomic bomb type used at Nagasaki, 1945
"Fat Man" (also known as Mark III) was the design of the nuclear weapon the United States used for seven of the first eight nuclear weapons ever detonated
Fat_Man
Multi-stage fusion-fission nuclear weapon
thermonuclear weapon, fusion weapon, or hydrogen bomb (H-bomb) is a second-generation nuclear weapon, using nuclear fusion. The most destructive weapons ever
Thermonuclear_weapon
American thermonuclear bomb design
Mark 24 nuclear bomb was an American thermonuclear bomb design, based on the third American thermonuclear bomb test, Castle Yankee. The Mark 24 bomb was
Mark_24_nuclear_bomb
American high-yield thermonuclear weapon
States Strategic Air Command in the early 1960s. It was the most powerful nuclear bomb ever developed by the United States, with a maximum yield of 25 megatons
B41_nuclear_bomb
Most powerful nuclear weapon ever tested
powerful nuclear weapon or weapon of any kind ever constructed and tested. A project of the Soviet Union, it was a thermonuclear aerial bomb, tested on
Tsar_Bomba
1945 attacks in Japan during WWII
types of atomic bombs: "Little Boy", an enriched uranium gun-type fission weapon, and "Fat Man", a plutonium implosion-type nuclear weapon. The 509th
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki
Nuclear weapon
A nuclear gravity bomb is a nuclear weapon intended to be dropped from an aircraft, with no propulsion. It may be an unguided bomb or a glide bomb. This
Nuclear_gravity_bomb
Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
sometimes referred to as the "Mark I" nuclear bomb design, with "Mark II" referring to the abandoned Thin Man, and "Mark III" to the "Fat Man". In September
Little_Boy
Nuclear weapons used on strategic targets outside of battlefields
of nuclear weapons by Russia is disputed by other experts. Mark 14 nuclear bomb Mark 15 nuclear bomb Mark 16 nuclear bomb Mark 17 nuclear bomb Mark 21
Strategic_nuclear_weapon
City and barrier island in Georgia, United States
capsule was equipped), there has been ongoing concern because the Mark 15 nuclear bomb lost during the mishap was never recovered. Native Americans, using
Tybee_Island,_Georgia
American hydrogen bomb design
The Mark 16 nuclear bomb was a large American thermonuclear bomb (hydrogen bomb), based on the design of the Ivy Mike, the first thermonuclear device
Mark_16_nuclear_bomb
Crash of US Air Force bomber with nuclear warheads
B-52 Stratofortress carrying two 3.8-megaton Mark 39 nuclear bombs broke up in mid-air, dropping its nuclear payload in the process. Five crewmen successfully
1961_Goldsboro_B-52_crash
2000 lb unguided aerial bomb
The Mark 84 or BLU-117 is a 2,000-pound (900 kg) American general purpose aircraft bomb. It is the largest of the Mark 80 series of weapons. Entering service
Mark_84_bomb
World's atomic warhead designs, 1945–present
(1958–1965) B28 nuclear bomb (Mark 28) (1958–1991) Mark 36 – Strategic nuclear bomb (1956–1961) 6–19 Megatons Mark 39 (1957–1966) B41 nuclear bomb (Mark 41) (1960–1976);
List_of_nuclear_weapons
500 lb unguided aerial bomb
The Mark 82 is a 500-pound (230 kg) unguided, low-drag general-purpose bomb, part of the United States Mark 80 series. The explosive filling is usually
Mark_82_bomb
Nuclear bomb
The B28, originally Mark 28, was a thermonuclear bomb carried by U.S. tactical fighter bombers, attack aircraft and bomber aircraft. From 1962 to 1972
B28_nuclear_bomb
Research project in Nazi Germany
Goudsmit and the German Atomic Bomb, Physics Today Volume 43, Issue 1, 52–60 (1990) Walker, Mark German Work on Nuclear Weapons, Historia Scientiarum;
German nuclear program during World War II
German_nuclear_program_during_World_War_II
A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either nuclear fission (fission or atomic bomb) or
Nuclear_weapon
H-Bomb Fell Near Albuquerque in 1957". Los Angeles Times. Associated Press. August 27, 1986. Retrieved 31 August 2014. "A Brief History of Nuclear Fission
List of military nuclear accidents
List_of_military_nuclear_accidents
were called atomic bombs or A-bombs and weapons involving fusion were called hydrogen bombs or H-bombs. Practitioners of nuclear policy, however, have
Nuclear_weapon_design
2025 American military action
the Natanz Nuclear Facility, and the Isfahan Nuclear Technology Center were targeted with fourteen GBU-57A/B MOP "bunker buster" bombs carried by B-2
2025 United States strikes on Iranian nuclear sites
2025_United_States_strikes_on_Iranian_nuclear_sites
Earth-penetrating nuclear weapon
B28 nuclear bomb (1958–1991): laydown delivery and ground burst Mark 39 nuclear bomb (1958–1962) laydown delivery and ground burst B43 nuclear bomb (1961–1990):
Nuclear_bunker_buster
List of incidents which could have led to a nuclear exchange
considered nuclear attacks on North Korea and Manchuria, in response to involvement from the People's Volunteer Army from China. Mark 4 nuclear bombs, lacking
Nuclear_close_calls
Underwater weapon carrying a nuclear warhead
ASB-30. The only nuclear warhead torpedo used by the United States was the Mark 45 torpedo. The Soviet Union widely deployed T5 nuclear torpedoes in 1958
Nuclear_torpedo
Topics referred to by the same term
reserved for use with the Supermarine Seafire Mark 15 nuclear bomb; 1950s American thermonuclear bomb Mark 15 Phalanx CIWS; automated anti-missile gatling
Mark_XV
of advancing Indian nuclear programme towards making the bombs. Therefore, In October 1965, Munir Khan, director at the Nuclear Power and Reactor Division
Pakistan and weapons of mass destruction
Pakistan_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction
and one squadron each of F-15 and F-16 fighters. Israel is also believed to have developed neutron bomb warheads and nuclear artillery rounds. Israel maintains
Nuclear_weapons_of_Israel
(USA) Mark 10 nuclear bomb (USA) Mark 11 nuclear bomb (USA) Mark 12 nuclear bomb (USA) Mark 15 nuclear bomb (USA) Mark 15/39 nuclear bomb (USA) Mark 18 nuclear
List_of_aircraft_weapons
Fission-based nuclear weapon
discussed was as part of the British Tube Alloys nuclear bomb development program, the world's first nuclear bomb development program. The British MAUD Report
Gun-type_fission_weapon
V-bombers with megaton weapons in place of the Mark 5, in the form of Mark 15 and Mark 39 nuclear bombs. Under the Project E MOU, US personnel had custody
Nuclear weapons of the United Kingdom
Nuclear_weapons_of_the_United_Kingdom
British tactical nuclear weapon
and 75 as nuclear depth charges. When HMS Victorious completed her reconstruction in 1958, she had "specially-equipped air-conditioned bomb rooms" designed
Red_Beard_(nuclear_weapon)
of nuclear weapons is the world's third-largest, estimated at 620 nuclear warheads as of 2026[update]. China was the fifth country to develop nuclear weapons
Nuclear_weapons_of_China
First detonation of a nuclear weapon
understand the likely effect of a bomb dropped from a plane and detonated in air, and generate less nuclear fallout, the bomb was to be detonated atop a 100-foot
Trinity_(nuclear_test)
Proposal to stop or mitigate hurricanes
have proposed using nuclear bombs on hurricanes as a way to disrupt or destroy them. Proponents argue one or more nuclear bombs can disintegrate, redirect
Nuclear_strikes_on_hurricanes
History of technical design of modern hydrogen bombs
known as hydrogen bombs. The design relies on the radiation implosion principle, using thermal X-rays released from a fission nuclear primary to compress
History of the Teller–Ulam design
History_of_the_Teller–Ulam_design
larger in the decades since. A nuclear weapon, also known as an atomic bomb, possesses enormous destructive power from nuclear fission, or a combination of
History_of_nuclear_weapons
Nuclear weapon designed for use on a battlefield
Union. The first mass-produced nuclear weapon specifically built for tactical applications was the Mark-4 gravity bomb, introduced in 1949 and featuring
Tactical_nuclear_weapon
Survivors of atomic bombings in Japan
victim of nuclear disaster, including the ones of the nuclear plant in Fukushima. They, therefore, prefer the writing 被曝者 (replacing baku 爆 'to bomb' with
Hibakusha
Set of three types of nuclear-strike standoff weapons
(SLBMs), and strategic bombers with nuclear bombs and missiles. More broadly, it can sometimes be used to mean any nuclear force with land, sea, and air basing
Nuclear_triad
U.S. state
flown by a B-47, a Mark 15 nuclear bomb, also known as the Tybee Bomb, was lost off the coast of Tybee Island near Savannah. The bomb was thought by the
Georgia_(U.S._state)
2024 book by Annie Jacobsen
shared with her that the USA and the USSR had each detonated two test nuclear bombs in space during the Cuban Missile Crisis. This "testing [of] fate" was
Nuclear_War:_A_Scenario
Discontinued US research program on the viability of nuclear pulse propulsion
pellets, in contrast to Project Orion's larger nuclear pulse units (full nuclear bombs). The Orion nuclear pulse drive combines a very high exhaust velocity
Project Orion (nuclear propulsion)
Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion)
Soviet nuclear bomb first tested in 1953
RDS-4 (Russian: РДС-4, also known as Tatyana) was a Soviet nuclear bomb that was first tested at Semipalatinsk Test Site, on August 23, 1953. The device
RDS-4
Cold War-era American jet bomber
at the time, the B-47 was carrying a single 7,600 lb (3,400 kg) Mark 15 nuclear bomb, without its core. During this exercise, the two aircraft collided
Boeing_B-47_Stratojet
First British operational high-yield strategic nuclear weapon warhead
Streak MRBM) and instead adopt the US W-28 warhead used in the US Mark 28 nuclear bomb. This was anglicised to adapt it to British engineering practices
Yellow_Sun_(nuclear_weapon)
Aspect of nuclear deterrence strategy
Netherlands, United Kingdom, and West Germany) CIM-10 Bomarc (Canada) Mark 7 nuclear bomb (United Kingdom) Mk 101 Lulu (Netherlands and the United Kingdom)
Nuclear_sharing
Several parodies of 1961 song Barbara Ann
"Bomb Iran" (or "Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran") is the name of several parodies of the Regents' 1961 song "Barbara Ann", originally written by Fred
Bomb_Iran
Hungarian-American physicist (1908–2003)
get support for the hydrogen bomb project, Teller supported and worked on the George shot of the Operation Greenhouse nuclear tests, resulting in the world's
Edward_Teller
American GPS-guided "bunker buster" bomb
Uranium Enrichment Plant and Natanz Nuclear Facility. GBU-57s were also used in combat in the 2026 Iran war. The bomb is much larger than earlier USAF bunker-busters
GBU-57A/B_MOP
Collision between a USAF B-52G and KC-135 over the Mediterranean Sea near Spain
no nuclear explosion triggered), dispersing plutonium and contaminating approximately 2 square kilometers (0.77 sq mi) of terrain. The fourth bomb fell
1966_Palomares_accident
Political slogan
ISSN 0149-5933. Nader, Alireza (2013), "Nuclear Iran and Terrorism", Iran After the Bomb, How Would a Nuclear-Armed Tehran Behave?, RAND Corporation,
Iran can never have a nuclear weapon
Iran_can_never_have_a_nuclear_weapon
1945 U.S. disinformation operation
The plan was for a nuclear attack on the USSR with 20 to 30 atomic bombs. It named 20 Soviet cities for obliteration by a nuclear first strike: Moscow
Plan_Totality
Core of a nuclear implosion weapon
composite cores were available for Mark 3 nuclear bombs by the end of 1947. For example, a composite core for a US Mark 4 bomb, the 49-LCC-C core was made of
Pit_(nuclear_weapon)
Accidental damage to nuclear weapons, RAF Lakenheath, Suffolk, United Kingdom
three Mark-6 nuclear weapons. The igloo was ripped apart and the aircraft exploded, showering the stored bombs with burning aviation fuel. The bombs each
RAF Lakenheath nuclear weapons accidents
RAF_Lakenheath_nuclear_weapons_accidents
Sudden increase of carbon-14 in the Earth's atmosphere due to nuclear bomb tests
The bomb pulse is the sudden increase of carbon-14 (14C) in Earth's atmosphere due to the hundreds of above-ground nuclear tests that started in 1945 and
Bomb_pulse
1956 study by the US Navy on anti-submarine and nuclear weapons
submarine-launched ASW tactical nuclear weapons until this weapon type was phased out in the late 1980s. New lightweight (Mark 46) and heavyweight (Mark 48) anti-submarine
Project_Nobska
Failed attempt by the Empire of Japan to develop nuclear technology
several programs exploring the use of nuclear fission for military technology, including nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons. Like the similar wartime programs
Japanese nuclear weapons programs
Japanese_nuclear_weapons_programs
authorized the transfer to Okinawa of atomic-capable B-29s armed with Mark 4 nuclear bombs and nine fissile cores into the custody of the U.S. Air Force. The
United States nuclear weapons in Japan
United_States_nuclear_weapons_in_Japan
Air dropped bomb used for multiple purposes
A general-purpose bomb is an air-dropped bomb intended as a compromise between blast damage, penetration, and fragmentation in explosive effect. They
General-purpose_bomb
Military conflict that deploys nuclear weaponry
2026[update], the first and only use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict was the United States atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, on August 6
Nuclear_warfare
Hypothetical climatic effect of nuclear war
16-kiloton nuclear bomb from a single B-29 bomber could have been produced instead by the conventional use of about 1.2 kilotons of incendiary bombs from 220
Nuclear_winter
flown by a B-47, a Mark 15 nuclear bomb, also known as the Tybee Bomb, was lost off the coast of Tybee Island near Savannah. The bomb was thought by the
History_of_Savannah,_Georgia
US nuclear testing on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands
a dry-fuel thermonuclear bomb. It was detonated at dawn on March 1, 1954. Scientists miscalculated: the 15 Mt of TNT nuclear explosion far exceeded the
Nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll
Nuclear_testing_at_Bikini_Atoll
1981 Israeli airstrike on an Iraqi nuclear reactor
that contrary to claims that the bombing of the Iraqi Osirak reactor delayed Iraq's nuclear bomb program, the Iraqi nuclear program before 1981 was peaceful
Operation_Opera
Nuclear bomb delivery mode
some nuclear gravity bombs: the bomb's descent to the target is slowed by parachute so that it lands on the ground without detonating. The bomb then detonates
Laydown_delivery
Anti-submarine missile system
detonated. The nuclear-armed ASROC was never used in combat. W44-armed ASROC missiles were retired by 1989, when all types of nuclear depth bombs were removed
RUR-5_ASROC
2013 science history book by Eric Schlosser
apart mid-air near Goldsboro, North Carolina, carrying two Mark 39 nuclear bombs. One bomb's arming sequence was almost fully complete, while the other
Command_and_Control_(book)
1952 American nuclear bomb test
UNIVAC I computer. The device consisted of a fission-based Mark 5 nuclear bomb acting as the nuclear primary, which compressed the cylindrical secondary fusion
Ivy_Mike
Severe events involving radioactive materials
Carolina. A B-52 Stratofortress carrying two Mark 39 nuclear bombs broke up in mid-air, dropping its nuclear payload in the process. July 1961: Soviet submarine
Nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents
Nuclear_and_radiation_accidents_and_incidents
energy in fixed quanta. 1904 – Frederick Soddy first proposes a bomb powered by nuclear fission to the Royal Engineers. 1905 – Albert Einstein proposes
Timeline of nuclear weapons development
Timeline_of_nuclear_weapons_development
American nuclear recoilless gun
in nuclear weapons technology, spurred on by the first detonation of the Soviet nuclear bomb in 1949, led to great reductions in the size of nuclear weapons
Davy Crockett (nuclear device)
Davy_Crockett_(nuclear_device)
2025 war in West Asia
began when Israel bombed military and nuclear facilities in Iran in a surprise attack, assassinating prominent military leaders, nuclear scientists, and
Twelve-Day_War
government publicized their intent to acquire a nuclear weapon. Many speculated that Indonesia would acquire the bomb by requesting assistance from the PRC through
Indonesia and weapons of mass destruction
Indonesia_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction
British nuclear weapon
thermonuclear weapon, based on the US W28 (then called Mark 28) design used in the B28 thermonuclear bomb and AGM-28 Hound Dog missile. The US W28 had yields
Red_Snow
Aspect of Japan's military history
Japan is the only country ever attacked with nuclear weapons, by the United States' 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World
Japan and weapons of mass destruction
Japan_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction
Controversies surrounding nuclear attacks
August 3, 2016] Atomic bomb survivors: Obama apology nice, but priority is disarmament Japanese atomic bomb survivor warns nuclear taboo is at risk in Nobel
Debate over the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Debate_over_the_atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki
Free-fall gravity nuclear bomb
other British nuclear weapon. The WE.177 was the last nuclear bomb in service with the Royal Air Force, and the last tactical nuclear weapon deployed
WE.177
American theoretical physicist (1904–1967)
often called the "Father of the Atomic Bomb" for his role in overseeing the development of the first nuclear weapons. Born in New York City, Oppenheimer
J._Robert_Oppenheimer
US Air Force strategic bomber (1949–1959)
gravity bombs, the Mark 14 (5 to 7 megatons), Mark 17, and Mark 24 (15 to 20 megatons). It was also assigned the fission-based Mark 6 and Mark 18 and the
Convair_B-36_Peacemaker
1954 U.S. thermonuclear weapon test in the Marshall Islands
in diameter. This 18-megaton bomb was produced until July 1956. In 1957, it was converted into the Mark 36 nuclear bomb and entered into production again
Castle_Bravo
Residual radioactive material following a nuclear blast
venting, was largely ceased following the 1996 Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty. The bomb pulse, the increase in global carbon-14 formed from neutron
Nuclear_fallout
Multi-model class of strategic bombers
the Mark 5, in the form of Mark 15 and Mark 39 nuclear bombs. The Treasury immediately inquired as to whether this meant that the British megaton bomb programme
V_bomber
American GPS bomb guidance kit
on a bomb, the JDAM kit is given a GBU (Guided Bomb Unit) identifier, superseding the Mark 80 or BLU (Bomb, Live Unit) nomenclature of the bomb to which
Joint_Direct_Attack_Munition
Espionage related to the creation of nuclear weapons
first nuclear weapons, there were many instances of nuclear espionage in which project scientists or technicians channeled information about bomb development
Nuclear_espionage
2007 British TV series or programme
Soviet plutonium bomb based on the Fatman plans supplied by Fuchs. Recalled to England, his adopted home, Fuchs returns with the nuclear secrets the U.S
Nuclear_Secrets
Academic and policy-relevant field on problems in the nuclear weapons and energy complex
jettisoning a Mark IV atomic bomb. This was the first such nuclear weapon loss in history. 22 May 1957: a 42,000-pound Mark-17 hydrogen bomb accidentally
Nuclear_ethics
World War II Allied nuclear weapons program
Corps of Engineers. Nuclear physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer was the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory that designed the bombs. The Army program was
Manhattan_Project
American strategic bomber aircraft
one week per aircraft. On 21 May 1956, a B-52B (52–13) dropped a Mk-15 nuclear bomb over the Bikini Atoll in a test code-named Cherokee. It was the first
Boeing_B-52_Stratofortress
Secret laboratory established by the Manhattan Project
bomb that would use a fission bomb to ignite a nuclear fusion reaction in deuterium and tritium. The Fat Man design was tested in the Trinity nuclear
Project_Y
Risk of nuclear conflict during the Russo-Ukrainian war
gravity bombs for Su-25 aircraft. This was possibly completed in late 2024. On November 21, 2024, following an announcement about changes to its nuclear doctrine
Nuclear risk during the Russo-Ukrainian war (2022–present)
Nuclear_risk_during_the_Russo-Ukrainian_war_(2022–present)
War casualties
weapons, biological weapons, or nuclear weapons. This article is currently not comprehensive, but lists strategic bombing of cities and towns, and human
Civilian casualties of strategic bombing
Civilian_casualties_of_strategic_bombing
American nuclear artillery shell
The W33 (also known as the Mark 33, T317 and M422) was an American nuclear artillery shell designed for use in the 8-inch (203 mm) M110 howitzer and M115
W33_(nuclear_warhead)
British effort to develop hydrogen bombs between 1952 and 1958
was codenamed "High Explosive Research". The successful nuclear test of a British atomic bomb in Operation Hurricane in October 1952 represented an extraordinary
British hydrogen bomb programme
British_hydrogen_bomb_programme
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