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  2. Blast shelter - Wikipedia

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    Blast doors in a missile control bunker at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota. The 25-ton blast door in the Cheyenne Mountain nuclear bunker is the main entrance to another blast door (background) beyond which the side tunnel branches into access tunnels to the main chambers.

  3. Thermonuclear weapon - Wikipedia

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    For two thermonuclear bombs for which the general size and primary characteristics are well understood, the Ivy Mike test bomb and the modern W-80 cruise missile warhead variant of the W-61 design, the radiation pressure was calculated to be 73 × 10 ^ 6 bar (7.3 TPa) for the Ivy Mike design and 1,400 × 10 ^ 6 bar (140 TPa) for the W-80.

  4. Nuclear weapon design - Wikipedia

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    In the ensuing fifty years, no one has come up with a more efficient way to build a thermonuclear bomb. It is the design of choice for the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, China, and France, the five thermonuclear powers. On 3 September 2017 North Korea carried out what it reported as its first "two-stage thermo-nuclear weapon" test. [31]

  5. A Cold War-era bomb shelter in Florida has new owners. What's ...

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    The bomb shelter was built in 1967 in response to the Cuban Missile Crisis that unfolded five years prior, widely considered by historians to be the closest humanity has come to full-scale nuclear ...

  6. Effects of nuclear explosions - Wikipedia

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    Sand will fuse into glass if it is close enough to the nuclear fireball to be drawn into it, and is thus heated to the necessary temperatures to do so; this is known as trinitite. [39] At the explosion of nuclear bombs lightning discharges sometimes occur. [40] Smoke trails are often seen in photographs of nuclear explosions.

  7. McDonald Ranch House - Wikipedia

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    The McDonald Ranch House in the Oscura Mountains of Socorro County, New Mexico, was the location of assembly of the world's first nuclear weapon.The active components of the Trinity test "gadget", a plutonium Fat Man-type bomb similar to that later dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, were assembled there on July 13, 1945.

  8. 1958 Mars Bluff B-47 nuclear weapon loss incident - Wikipedia

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    A Mark 6 nuclear bomb, similar to the one dropped in the incident, at the National Museum of the United States Air Force.. On March 11, 1958, a U.S. Air Force Boeing B-47E-LM Stratojet from Hunter Air Force Base operated by the 375th Bombardment Squadron of the 308th Bombardment Wing near Savannah, Georgia, took off at approximately 4:34 PM and was scheduled to fly to the United Kingdom and ...

  9. 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 ...