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41Mark 28 nuclear bomb — The Mark 28 series of bombs are the oldest nuclear weapons in the United States arsenal with first deployment in 1958. It can be assembled and deployed in five different configurations. The first Mk 28 drop shapes were the Internal, or IN,… …
42Nuclear weapon design — The first nuclear weapons, though large, cumbersome and inefficient, provided the basic design building blocks of all future weapons. Here the Gadget device is prepared for the first nuclear test: Trinity. Nuclear weapon designs are physical,… …
43Samuel Cohen — Samuel T. Cohen (born 1921 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American physicist who is known for inventing the W70 warhead and the enhanced neutron weapon or neutron bomb. In the 1990s he advocated investigation of terrorist threats like red mercury… …
44Soviet atomic bomb project — The fathers of the Soviet nuclear program, Dr. Andrei Sakharov (left) with Dr. Igor Kurchatov (right) …
45W30 — The W30 was an American nuclear warhead used on the RIM 8 Talos surface to air missile and the Tactical Atomic Demolition Munition (TADM).The W30 was 22 inches in diameter and 48 inches long, weighing 438, 450, or 490 pounds depending on the… …
46W33 (nuclear weapon) — The W33 was an American nuclear artillery shell, fired from an 8 (203 mm) howitzer.There were a total of 2,000 W33 shells produced. It was first produced in 1957 and saw service until 1992. DescriptionThe W33 is 8 inches in diameter and 37 inches …
47Yucca Flat — is a closed desert drainage basin, one of four major nuclear test regions within the Nevada Test Site (NTS), and is divided into nine test sections: Areas 1 through 4 and 6 through 10. Yucca Flat is located at the eastern edge of NTS, about ten… …
48Operation Fishbowl — was a series of high altitude nuclear tests in 1962 that were carried out by the United States as a part of the larger Operation Dominic nuclear test program. Array of rockets with instruments for making scientific measurements of high altitude… …
49Little Boy — Infobox Weapon name= Little Boy caption= A post war Little Boy model. origin= United States type= Nuclear weapon is explosive=yes designer= design date= manufacturer= unit cost= production date= number= weight= 8,818.49 lbs. 4,000 kg length= 9.84 …
50Electromagnetic pulse — Ebomb redirects here. For EBOM, see Engineering bill of materials. This article is about the general weapons effect. For other uses, see the more specific topic (for example, Electromagnetic forming) An electromagnetic pulse (sometimes… …
