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...

A tactical nuclear weapon (TNW) or non-strategic nuclear weapon (NSNW) is a nuclear weapon that is designed to be used on a battlefield in military situations...

low-to-intermediate yield strategic and tactical nuclear weapon featuring a two-stage radiation implosion design. The B61 is of the variable yield ("dial-a-yield" in...

was a thermonuclear weapon deployed by the United States Strategic Air Command in the early 1960s. It was the most powerful nuclear bomb ever developed...

Nuclear weapon designs are physical, chemical, and engineering arrangements that cause the physics package of a nuclear weapon to detonate. There are three...

bombers, the B53, with a yield of 9 megatons, was the most powerful weapon in the U.S. nuclear arsenal after the last B41 nuclear bombs were retired in 1976...

(Mark 41) (1960–1976); highest yield US nuclear weapon (25 Megatons). B43 nuclear bomb (Mark 43) (1961–1991) B46 nuclear bomb or (Mark 46); experimental...

Nuclear weapons testing is the act of experimentally and deliberately firing one or more nuclear devices in a controlled manner pursuant to a military...

staged test of them. Testing nuclear weapons can yield information about how the weapons work, as well as how the weapons behave under various conditions...

(CDS), rendering the weapon tactically useless without a nuclear yield. The B83 was test fired in the Grenadier Tierra nuclear weapon test on 15 December...