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The weapon was carried in a sling apparatus. Aircraft speed at release was limited to 400 knots (740 km/h), so as to not exceed an opening shock of 6,000 Gs on the parachute harness. The bomb was equipped with a two-stage deployment system, including a 24 feet (7.3 m) main ribbon canopy which provided up to 108 seconds of retardation.
Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb (2012) The Truth About Chernobyl (1991) U.S. Nuclear Weapons: The Secret History (1988) The Unfinished Twentieth Century (2001) Uranium Wars: The Scientific Rivalry that Created the Nuclear Age (2009) Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (2005) We Almost Lost Detroit ...
W80 thermonuclear warhead, photo published in Hansen's The Swords of Armageddon. Chuck Hansen (May 13, 1947 - March 26, 2003) was the compiler, over a period of 30 years, of the world's largest private collection of unclassified documents on how America developed atomic and thermonuclear weapons.
Hacker, Barton C. Elements of Controversy: The Atomic Energy Commission and Radiation Safety in Nuclear Weapons Testing, 1947–1974. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1994. ISBN 978-0-520-08323-3; Hansen, Chuck. U.S. Nuclear Weapons: The Secret History. Arlington, TX: Aerofax, 1988. ISBN 978-0-517-56740-1
The plant has been the main U.S. site for assembling and disassembling atomic bombs since 1975. It produced its last new bomb in 1991, and has dismantled thousands of weapons retired from military ...
A review in The New York Times described it as a "disquieting but riveting" book and Schlosser as a "better reporter than policy analyst". [6] Speaking of the book, domestic security adviser Lee H. Hamilton said, "The lesson of this powerful and disturbing book is that the world's nuclear arsenals are not as safe as they should be. We should ...
The Strategic Air Command Atomic Weapons Requirements Study for 1959, uncovered and published by the National Security Archive, provides the most comprehensive and detailed list of the U.S.' Cold ...
A Global History of the Nuclear Arms Race: Weapons, Strategy, and Politics [2 volumes]: Weapons, Strategy, and Politics. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1-440-80095-5. table of contents; Falk, Jim (1982). Global Fission: The Battle Over Nuclear Power. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-195-54315-5. Gowing, Margaret (1964). Britain and Atomic Energy 1939 ...