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W-54

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tactical nuclear weapons
…first such devices was the W-54 warhead, whose explosive force, or yield, varied from 0.1 to 1 kiloton (1 kiloton is a force equal to 1,000 tons of TNT). By comparison, the atomic bombs dropped on Japan in World War II had yields of 15 and 21 kilotons. The W-54…
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…first such devices was the W-54 warhead, whose explosive force, or yield, varied from 0.1 to 1 kiloton (1 kiloton is a force equal to 1,000 tons of TNT). By comparison, the atomic bombs dropped on Japan in World War II had yields of 15 and 21 kilotons. The W-54…
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