Tag: b61
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Mercury: The Secret Sauce of Yield Control?
A number of years ago I was discussing with another researcher the concept of dial-a-yield (DAY) weapons (variable yield weapons) using “doors” between the primary and secondary stage to control yield. The basic idea being that when closed, no x-rays can flow to the secondary and therefore no secondary yield is produced. Figure 1 —…
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Mace, a Los Alamos Secondary Device
I’ve been trying to put together a list of device codenames, determining what the devices are, what era they are from and then tying them to a lab. Of course, the holy grail is to identify what weapon they are associated with. I have listed some here with varying levels of certainty: But the device…
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Cougar — The Primary of the B61 Bomb
The codenames for US nuclear devices are difficult to track. Usually, the primary and secondary stages have separate codenames and generally they are classified when associated with a specific weapon, but in some instances, they have been declassified and in others they have slipped through the cracks during declassification. Hansen in Swords of Armageddon provides…
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