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2. Mark 39 nuclear bomb - Wikipedia

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   The Mark 39 design was a thermonuclear bomb and had a yield of 3.8 megatons. [1] It weighed 6,500–6,750 pounds (2,950–3,060 kilograms), [2] and was about 11 feet, 8 inches long (3.556 meters) [2] with a diameter of 35 inches (89 cm). [2] The design is an improved Mark 15 nuclear bomb design (the TX-15-X3 design and Mark 39 Mod 0 were the ...

3. TNT equivalent - Wikipedia

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   TNT equivalent is a convention for expressing energy, typically used to describe the energy released in an explosion.The ton of TNT is a unit of energy defined by convention to be 4.184 gigajoules (1 gigacalorie), [1] which is the approximate energy released in the detonation of a metric ton (1,000 kilograms) of TNT.

4. 1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash - Wikipedia

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   The 1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash was an accident that occurred near Goldsboro, North Carolina, United States, on 24 January 1961.A Boeing B-52 Stratofortress carrying two 3.8-megaton Mark 39 nuclear bombs broke up in mid-air, dropping its nuclear payload in the process.

5. List of nuclear weapons - Wikipedia

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   Gun-type (8–30 kilotons). Mark 12 – Light-weight bomb to be carried by fighter aircraft (12–14 kilotons). Mark 13 – Improved version of Mk-6 (cancelled August 1954). TX/Mark 14 – First deployable solid-fuel thermonuclear bomb (Castle Union device). Only five produced. (5 Megatons) Mark 15 – First "lightweight" thermonuclear weapon ...

6. Nuclear weapon yield - Wikipedia

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   Log–log plot comparing the yield (in kilotonnes) and mass (in kilograms) of various nuclear weapons developed by the United States.. The explosive yield of a nuclear weapon is the amount of energy released such as blast, thermal, and nuclear radiation, when that particular nuclear weapon is detonated, usually expressed as a TNT equivalent (the standardized equivalent mass of trinitrotoluene ...

7. Orders of magnitude (energy) - Wikipedia

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   Yield of the Little Boy atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in World War II (15 kilotons) [175] [176] 9×10 13 J: Theoretical total mass–energy of 1 gram of matter (25 GW·h) [177] 10 14 1.8×10 14 J Energy released by annihilation of 1 gram of antimatter and matter (50 GW·h) 3.75×10 14 J: Total energy released by the Chelyabinsk meteor. [178 ...