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Nuclear weapons delivery is the technology and systems used to place a nuclear weapon at the position of detonation, on or near its target.Several methods have been developed to carry out this task.
On 29 August 2007, six AGM-129 ACM cruise missiles, each loaded with a W80-1 variable yield nuclear warhead, were mistakenly loaded onto a United States Air Force (USAF) B-52H heavy bomber at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota and transported to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana.
SADM in its carry bag SADM hard carrying case A U.S. Army Special Forces paratrooper conducts a high-altitude low-opening military freefall jump with an MK–54 SADM. The Special Atomic Demolition Munition (SADM), also known as the XM129 and XM159 Atomic Demolition Charges, [1] and the B54 bomb [2] was a nuclear man-portable atomic demolition munition (ADM) system fielded by the US military ...
UC1583 PAL controller (early 1990s), based on a commercial Compaq LTE laptop. A permissive action link (PAL) is an access control security device for nuclear weapons.Its purpose is to prevent unauthorized arming or detonation of a nuclear weapon. [1]
In 1986, prior to the widespread use of the Internet, police investigated the sharing of a computer print-out from a digital manual titled the "Complete Book of Explosives" written by a group calling itself "Phoenix Force", as students shared the list with classmates and experimented with building many of the bombs it listed. [9]
The term suitcase nuke is generally used to describe any type of small, man-portable nuclear device although there is serious debate as to the validity of the term itself. In a worst case analysis, a suitcase nuke would be small enough to be hand-carried into a major population or leadership center undetected and then detonated.
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With the revelation of India's missile program, General Mirza Beg, then-chief of army staff working under President Zia-ul-Haq, launched a Hatf (lit. Target) program to meet India's challenge.: 235 [4] The Hatf-I was developed in response and attempt to counter India's Prithvi and the program was first delegated to Space Research Commission.: 235 [4] Designing of Hatf rocket system began in ...