W80 (nuclear warhead)
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The W80 is a low to intermediate yield two-stage thermonuclear warhead deployed by the U.S. enduring stockpile with a variable yield of 5 or 150 kilotons of TNT.
A W80 nuclear warhead
W80 Mod 1 warhead
W84
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The W84 is an American thermonuclear warhead initially designed for use on the BGM-109G Gryphon Ground Launched Cruise Missile.
W80 (nuclear warhead)
…essentially a modification of the widely deployed B61 bomb, which is the basis of most of the US stockpile of nuclear gravity bombs. The very similar W84 warhead was deployed on the retired BGM-109G Ground Launched Cruise Missile. It was designed at Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico…
W84 warhead, serial number 001.
W84 warhead (left) on display at the Nuclear Weapons Instructional Museum
Storage container and PAL coder-decoder for the W84 warhead.