In nuclear weapon design, the pit is the core of an implosion nuclear weapon, consisting of fissile material and any neutron reflector or tamper bonded...

and plutonium only pits. The exact pit assemblies were common with several other U.S. nuclear weapons, the Type C and Type D pit assemblies. Along with...

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

The Mark 5 nuclear bomb and W5 nuclear warhead were a common core American nuclear weapon design, designed in the early 1950s and which saw service from...

Cold War. It is a low-to-intermediate yield strategic and tactical nuclear weapon featuring a two-stage radiation implosion design. The B61 is of the...

This is a list of nuclear weapons listed according to country of origin, and then by type within the states. American nuclear weapons of all types – bombs...

kilotonnes of TNT (33 and 255 TJ) by using different weapon pits (cores). Implosion nuclear weapon English Electric Canberra (Royal Air Force) Douglas...

which allows the exchange of fluids Pit (nuclear weapon), the core of an implosion weapon Pit bull, a breed of dog PIT tag, Passive Integrated Transponder...

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...

This timeline of nuclear weapons development is a chronological catalog of the evolution of nuclear weapons rooting from the development of the science...