• The B61 Family is a series of nuclear weapons based on the B61 nuclear bomb. The B61 bomb was developed by Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (LASL; now...
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    The B61 nuclear bomb is the primary thermonuclear gravity bomb in the United States Enduring Stockpile following the end of the Cold War. It is a low-to-intermediate...
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    more significant, variants are assigned their own number. An example is the B61 nuclear bomb, which was the parent design for the W80, W81, and W84. There...
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    it to use the lower-yield W85 warhead. This warhead was derived from the B61 Mod 3 and utilized the same pit in the primary stage of the warhead, but...
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  • 170 to 200 kilotonnes of TNT (710 to 840 TJ). List of nuclear weapons B61 Family Y-12 National Security Complex Completes W69 Dismantlement at NNSA press...
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  • ISBN 0-471-18636-8. Norris, Robert S., Hans M. Kristensen, and Joshua Handler. "The B61 family of bombs"[permanent dead link], http://thebulletin.org, The Bulletin of...
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    used by the United States Navy. The W81 was believed to be derived from the B61 nuclear bomb which forms the backbone of the current US nuclear gravity bomb...
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    polymer-bonded explosives. The W84 was briefly considered alongside the B61 Mod 12 for the Long-Ranged Stand Off Missile (LRSO) program, but a new modification...
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    (link) Kristensen, Hans; Norris, Robert (27 November 2015) [2014]. "The B61 family of nuclear bombs". Nuclear notebook. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists...
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    conventional or nuclear-armed version of the Condor. List of nuclear weapons B61 Family Benedix Corp (14 April 1970). W73 IS THE NUCLEAR WARHEAD FOR THE AIRCRAFT...
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