Nuclear_weapon_size_chart.jpg


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English: Graphic showing relative sizes of various types of nuclear weapons . Clockwise from upper left: a Fat Man (MK-IV) bomb similar to the type dropped on Nagasaki, Japan; a MK-17 hydrogen bomb of the sort detonated at the Castle Bravo test; a W-87 warhead inside its re-entry vehicle (see MIRV , LGM-118A Peacekeeper ); and a W-59 warhead used on the early Minuteman missiles.
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Source Created by Fastfission , inspired by a graphic created by Los Alamos National Laboratory for the 1999 Cox Report, redrawn and redesigned in Macromedia Freehand .
Author Fastfission .
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20 November 2005