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B61 Nuclear Gravity Bomb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) |
 | | Three views of a B61 gravity bomb: assembled (background), disassembled into its major subcomponents (middle), and a display of some of the weapon's 5,919 parts (foreground). |
 | | The warhead fits inside the blunt-nosed silver canister sitting on the white cloth in front of the partially disassembled bomb. |
 | | The B61 is a tactical thermonuclear gravity bomb which can be carried aboard a variety of strategic and tactical aircraft (including the B-52 and B-2A bombers and the F-16 fighter). |
| www.brookings.edu /FP/projects/nucwcost/b61.htm (285 words) |