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Names of Nukes
All of the names of famous nuclear warheads in history!
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Little boy | Detonated on Hiroshima by USA, its yield was 15kt. It was a gun type nuclear weapon. |
| Fat man | Detonated on Nagasaki by USA, its yield was 21kt. It was a Implosion type nuclear weapon. |
| Tsar Bomba | Detonated by the USSR in a testing range, it was the largest nuclear weapon ever used, and its load was 50 megatons, but had the possibility of 100 megatons. It was a three stage H-Bomb |
| Trinity | Code name: Trinity was the first ever tested nuclear weapon, it held 20 kt. It was a Plutonium implosion fission type bomb It was detonated in a desert in New Mexico |
| Davy Crocket | Developed by USA in the Cold War, the Davy Crockett held about 10 tons of explosion. It was the smallest nuclear weapon even made. |
| Ivy MIke | First H-Bomb ever never tested in war. Its load was 10.4 megatons |
| Ivy KIng | Largest pure fission bomb ever tested. Its load was 500kilotons |
| W-87 | Known as the Minuteman III it is still currently used in the Us Military so most of its knowledge is confidential. It load is 300 kilotons. |
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