Mark 5 nuclear bomb
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The Mark 5 nuclear bomb and W5 nuclear warhead were a common core American nuclear weapon design, designed in the early 1950s and which saw service from 1952 to 1963.
Mark 5 nuclear bomb, side view.
The Mark 5 bomb displaying open doors at front are for insertion of nuclear core
View looking into the nose of a Mark 5, where the fissile pit and final explosive charge segment would be inserted.
Nuclear weapon design
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Nuclear weapons design means the physical, chemical, and engineering arrangements that cause the physics package of a nuclear weapon to detonate. There are three existing basic design types:
Mark 5 nuclear bomb
…The Mark 5 nuclear bomb and W5 nuclear warhead were a common core American nuclear weapon design, designed in the early 1950s and which saw service from 1952 to 1963. The Mark 5 design was the first production American nuclear weapon which, with a…
The first nuclear explosive devices provided the basic building blocks of future weapons. Pictured is the Gadget device being prepared for the Trinity nuclear test.
Macroscopic shell of neptunium-237
Microscopic quantity of americium
Bassoon, the prototype for a 9.3-megaton clean bomb or a 25-megaton dirty bomb. Dirty version shown here, before its 1956 test. The two attachments on the left are light pipes; see below for elaboration.