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it is derived from has a physics package (bomb core) of about 12 inches (30 cm) diameter with length of 32 inches (81 cm), weighing around 300 pounds (140 kg) (see the
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derived design). Available LASL images show a much shorter weapon, perhaps 12 by 16 to 18 inches (30 by 41 to 46 cm), probably the final fission-only
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USN Standard SM-2 SAM warhead; PAL F; variant of Mk/B-61 warhead, enhanced radiation version initially planned, later converted to fission only
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The LASL image clearly shows the warhead taking up most, but not all, of the 13.5 inches (34 cm) SM-2 body diameter.
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which forms the backbone of the current US nuclear gravity bomb arsenal and from which the
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cruise missile warhead is derived. The weapon was being designed at
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went through several design iterations, starting with an
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model, then a pure fission model and cancelled in 1986.
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was a planned American warhead to be mounted on the
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Index

Great ditrigonal dodecicosidodecahedron

SM-2
United States Navy
B61 nuclear bomb
W80
Los Alamos National Laboratory
enhanced radiation
B61
W80
B61
B61
List of nuclear weapons
Standard missile
B61 nuclear bomb
B61 Family


"List of all US nuclear weapons"
"The B61 Bomb"
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United States nuclear devices
Fission
(including
boosted)

Gravity bombs
Little Boy
Thin Man
Fat Man
Mark 4

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