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B53 nuclear bomb. The Mk/B53 was a high-yield bunker buster thermonuclear weapon developed by the United States during the Cold War. Deployed on Strategic Air Command 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.
Blockbuster bomb. "High capacity" bomb for maximum blast effect, only used during World War II. April 1941. United Kingdom. Bouncing bomb. Skips across water; designed to attack German dams in World War II. April 1942. Barnes Wallis. United Kingdom.
The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II and lasted to 1991, the fall of the Soviet Union. The term cold war is used because there was no large-scale fighting ...
Cold War nuclear arms race. Part of the Post-WWII era and the Cold War. Left to right, nuclear bomb test Crossroads Baker; a Soviet RT-2PM Topol mobile ICBM; a flying LGM-30 Minuteman ICBM; the mushroom cloud explosion of the test Castle Romeo. Date. September 28, 1942 – December 8, 1987. (45 years, 2 months, 1 week and 3 days) Location.
The United States was the first country to manufacture nuclear weapons and is the only country to have used them in combat, with the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II. Before and during the Cold War, it conducted 1,054 nuclear tests, and tested many long-range nuclear weapons delivery systems. [Note 1]
Survival Under Atomic Attack was the title of an official United States government booklet released in 1951 by the Executive Office of the President, the National Security Resources Board (document 130), and the Civil Defense Office. Released at the onset of the Cold War era, the pamphlet was in line with rising fears that the Soviet Union ...
B77 nuclear bomb. B83 nuclear bomb. B90 nuclear bomb. BLU-3 Pineapple. BLU-14. BLU-80/B Bigeye bomb. BLU-82. BOLT-117. List of bombs in the Vietnam War.
The history of aerial warfare began in ancient times, with the use of kites in China. In the third century, it progressed to balloon warfare. Airplanes were put to use for war starting in 1911, initially for reconnaissance, and then for aerial combat to shoot down the recon planes. The use of planes for strategic bombing emerged during World ...