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  Nuclear weapons delivery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nuclear weapons delivery is the technology and systems used to place a nuclear weapon at the position of detonation, on or near its intended target.
Weapons which are used primarily as part of a doctrine of deterrence by threatening large targets, such as cities, are known as "strategic" nuclear weapons.
Weapons meant for use in limited military maneuvers, such as destroying specific military, communications, or infrastructure targets, are known as "tactical" nuclear weapons, and are usually of much smaller yields.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nuclear_weapons_delivery   (1339 words)

  
 Nuclear weapon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The detonation of a nuclear weapon is accompanied by a blast of neutron radiation.
Nuclear weapons were symbols of military and national power, and nuclear testing was often used both to test new designs as well as to send political messages.
Nuclear weapons have been at the heart of many national and international political disputes and have played a major part in popular culture since their dramatic public debut in the 1940s and have usually symbolized the ultimate ability of mankind to utilize the strength of nature for destruction.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nuclear_weapon   (2827 words)

  
 MILNET: Nuclear Weapons Delivery
During all manipulations of the weapons prior to takeoff or launch of a nuclear armed aircraft or rocket, the switch would be in its normal state of safe, which prevented not only PAL activation, but physical maninpulation of nuclear components which could cause detonation.
As mentioned earlier, the weapon was usually connected to the aircraft so that it could be armed with the final arming command (in later scenarios this required the arming personnel (pilot or bombadier) to reenter the correct PAL sequence, matching the one input on the ground for the device.
Larger nuclear weapons could be constructed using the small device as the primary, however, larger weapons are more easily detected with radiation measurement devices, and the sheer weight of MT scale weapons (lots of U235 or U238 for instance...Uranium is heavier than lead) would mean truck or rail transport.
www.milnet.com /nukeweap/delivery.htm   (2451 words)

  
 Nuclear weapons - Uncyclopedia
Perhaps the biggest danger from a nuclear explosion is the dazzling initial light that is emitted for several seconds; looking directly at it can be as dangerous as staring into the sun for too long, and those with fair skin may require lotion.
If a nuclear explosion occurs on or near the ground, the head of the mushroom may float on the breeze for many miles, drifting to earth and dirtying exposed washing, car windscreens and light-coloured paintwork.
According to modern research, Nuclear Weapons are best used in confined quarters like the UnStar, and a room, preferably not in private, but open to the world, so a possible Fart Detonation could wreak havoc amongst the entire human race.
uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Nuclear_weapons   (734 words)

  
 International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
"Destroy" means, with regard to a nuclear weapon, to remove the warhead from its delivery vehicle, dismantle and irreversibly disable the warhead and its components, and dismantle and disable or convert the delivery vehicle to non-nuclear use, in accordance with the provisions of this Convention.
All delivery vehicles capable of use for the delivery of nuclear weapons or non-nuclear weapons {Schedule 2} shall be destroyed according to Article IV {Phases for Implementation} or converted for purposes not prohibited under this Convention.
The threat or use of nuclear weapons shall be deemed to be a threat to the peace subject to the provisions of the United Nations Charter.
www.ippnw.org /NWCText.html   (14753 words)

  
 MILNET: Nuclear Weapons Descriptions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Nuclear weapons can be distinguished from their delivery vehicles, but it senseless to try to analyze the warhead itself without first understanding the delivery system.
Various countries are nuclear armed, but it has been clear that no one is prepared to use these weapons of "mass destruction" without severe provocation.
The Genie was a nuclear tipped weapon which was intended to take out a whole squadron of attacking bombers, assuming of course the F-106 could get close enough, and that of course the squadron were flying close enough together, say as in a formation.
www.milnet.com /nukedesc.htm   (1021 words)

  
 Nuclear weapons facts
A nuclear weapon is a weapon which derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions of either nuclear fission or the more powerful fusion.
As a result, even a nuclear weapon with a relatively small yield is significantly more powerful than the largest conventional explosives, and a single weapon can destroy or seriously disable an entire city.
U.S. The Bush Administration's nuclear weapons budget request currently under consideration by Congress, poses significant threats to the environment, national security and non-proliferation, according to a network of groups from communities located downwind and downstream from U.S. weapons facilities.
www.shundahai.org /nukeweapfacts.htm   (710 words)

  
 Freedom from War (1961)
Strategic nuclear weapons delivery vehicles of specified categories and weapons designed to counter such vehicles would be reduced to agreed levels by equitable and balanced steps; their production would be discontinued or limited; their testing would be limited or halted.
(f) A Nuclear Experts Commission consisting of representatives of the nuclear states shall be established within the IDO for the purpose of examining and reporting on the feasibility and means for accomplishing the verified reduction and eventual elimination of nuclear weapons stockpiles.
Stocks of nuclear weapons shall be progressively reduced to the minimum levels which can be agreed upon as a result of the findings of the Nuclear Experts Commission; the resulting excess of fissionable material shall be transferred to peaceful purposes.
dosfan.lib.uic.edu /ERC/arms/freedom_war.html   (3717 words)

  
 India's Nuclear Weapons Program - Present Capabilities
Due to the cost of integrating and qualifying an aircraft for nuclear delivery, and maintaining a cadre of specially trained pilots, it is unlikely that India would choose to deploy nuclear weapons on more than one or two aircraft types.
Only the Mirage 2000 is known to have been qualified as a nuclear delivery platform, and the Jaguar is known to have been abandoned for nuclear weapons delivery due to technical problems.
Nuclear power supplied 2.65 percent of India's electricity in 1999 and this is expected to reach 10 per cent by 2005.
nuclearweaponarchive.org /India/IndiaArsenal.html   (5346 words)

  
 LCNP.org - Nuclear Weapons Convention
"Destroy" means, with regard to a nuclear weapon and its delivery vehicle, to remove the warhead from its delivery vehicle, dismantle and disable the warhead, dispose of its special nuclear material, and dismantle and disable or convert the delivery vehicle to non-nuclear use, in accordance with the provisions of this Convention.
All treatment of nuclear material that improves its quality to the level of special nuclear material or improves the accessibility of special nuclear material is prohibited, as for example separation of plutonium from spent fuel, enrichment of uranium in U-235 beyond unavoidable civilian requirements but not beyond 20% or extraction of tritium from heavy water.
All delivery vehicles capable of use for the delivery of nuclear weapons or non- nuclear weapons {Schedule 2 of Annex on Delivery Vehicles} shall be destroyed according to Article IV {Phases for Implementation} or converted for purposes not prohibited under this Convention.
www.lcnp.org /mnwc/convention.htm   (12956 words)

  
 Delivery Systems utilized to employ nuclear weapons
It was used to train pilots in nuclear weapons delivery tactics and to develop and test weapons for the aircraft.
SNAP 10A System for Nuclear Auxiliary Power (or Space Nuclear Auxiliary Power) is a nuclear powered electrical source On April 3, 1965, an ATLAS Agena D, launched from the Western Test Range, put a SNAP 10A into a nominal 1300km orbit, where it generated more than 500 watts of power for over 43 days.
The importance of the nuclear rocket is that it eliminates the weight of one tank, one fluid, one pump, and the need for combustion, by using a thermal reactor to heat a gas passing through it.
www.atomicmuseum.com /tour/deliverysystems.cfm   (495 words)

  
 "THE EVOLVING THREAT FROM WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION IN THE MIDDLE EAST" - U.S. Foreign Policy Agenda, July 2002, ...
Egypt used chemical weapons when it intervened in the civil war in Yemen in the 1960s, and both Israel and its opponents were heavily equipped for chemical warfare during the October War in 1973.
Is in the process of developing nuclear weapons, and should have reached the point where it can manufacture every aspect of fission weapons, except fissionable material.
It is entirely possible that Iraq has advanced to the point where it has dry, storable biological weapons that are as lethal as fission nuclear weapons, and that it has mastered the ability to configure bombs and warheads in ways that can disseminate these weapons efficiently.
usinfo.state.gov /journals/itps/0702/ijpe/cordesman.htm   (2376 words)

  
 Israel's Nuclear Weapons Program
The center of Israel's weapons program is the Negev Nuclear Research Center near the desert town of Dimona (the center is usually identified simply as "Dimona").
A nuclear reactor and plutonium production facility was built by France at this facility in the late 1950s and early 60s.
Although radiation implosion weapons could be developed without testing, they would tend to be large and heavy and would perhaps be incompatible with Israel's available delivery systems.
nuclearweaponarchive.org /Israel   (2724 words)

  
 Kirsch Foundation Nuclear Disarmament
The use of nuclear weapons remains the most alarming issue of our time and the single largest threat to humankind.
There are currently nine countries that have or are believed to have nuclear weapons: the United States, Russia, United Kingdom, China, France, India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea.
The pursuit of unilateral nuclear and space supremacy by the U.S. has the potential to undermine international cooperation toward disarmament and spark a new arms race.
www.kirschfoundation.org /care/nuclear_disarmament.html   (625 words)

  
 - Nuclear Arms Control
This includes annual tables providing detailed estimates and information about global inventories of nuclear weapons and delivery means.
A significant number of countries have a national nuclear infrastructure that could provide a platform for nuclear weapons development.
To reduce the risk that nuclear weapons, delivery systems and fissile materials could be acquired by unauthorized state or non-state actors a number of practical measures have been defined to increase their physical security, safeguard against their diversion or misuse and in some cases eliminate them or render them unusable.
www.sipri.org /contents/expcon/nuc_index01.html   (275 words)

  
 Bush Seeks a New Generation Of Nuclear Weapons, Delivery Systems
The Bush administration is studying the development of a new generation of nuclear weapons and strategic delivery systems at the same time it has announced its intention to sharply reduce the number of operationally deployed U.S. nuclear warheads.
The Nuclear Weapons Council, made up of officials from the Defense and Energy departments, has ordered a three-year study into developing a nuclear-tipped, earth-penetrating weapon that can destroy hardened underground targets.
The National Nuclear Security Administration workload, at least for the next 10 years, is overwhelmingly devoted to refurbishing nuclear warheads for the land-based Minuteman III ICBM, the sub-launched Trident SLBM, the air-launched cruise missile and versions of the B-61 nuclear bomb.
www.commondreams.org /cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/headlines02/0219-04.htm   (660 words)

  
 FY04 Nuclear Weapons Budget Comparison   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The report is required to include a force structure plan for nuclear weapons and delivery systems covering fiscal years 2003 to 2012 reflecting anticipated reductions stemming from the Moscow Treaty.
The fiscal year 2004 budget request is the second budget request delivered to the Committee that is loosely justified on the requirements of the Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) policy document but lacking a formal plan that specifies the changes to the stockpile reflecting the President's decision.
The committee noted that the weapons laboratories "are the repository for certain skills critical to national security," and that the time remaining for new scientists and engineers to learn from retiring weapons designers is diminishing.
www.ananuclear.org /FY04budgetcompare.html   (917 words)

  
 Global Beat: Kerrey Amendment on Nuclear Weapons Reductions
Savings from nuclear weapons reductions can be applied to other Pentagon priorities, such as readiness or conventional weapons.
President Gorbachev responded in kind, withdrawing all tactical weapons from Warsaw Pact nations and non-Russian republics, removing most categories of tactical nuclear weapons from service and designating thousands of nuclear warheads for dismantlement.
There are good reasons for the U.S. to reduce its nuclear weapons stockpiles, both deployed and in reserve.
www.bu.edu /globalbeat/nuclear/Isaacs051199.html   (915 words)

  
 FP NWC, a Project at the Brookings Institution   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Economic Implications of Nuclear Weapons—William J. Weida
Bombs in the Backyard: Bases and Facilities with Significant U.S. Nuclear Weapons or Naval Nuclear Propulsion Missions
A New Agenda for Nuclear Weapons: On Nuclear Weapons, Destroy and Codify
www.brook.edu /FP/PROJECTS/NUCWCOST/WEAPONS.HTM   (342 words)

  
 Navy Nuclear Weapons Association - NWTGP History
In June of that year, this command was reorganized as the Nuclear Weapons Training Center Pacific, with a mission to conduct training for both officer and enlisted personnel of Pacific Fleet units.
We provide nuclear weapons orientation, employment planning, and technical training for about 4,200 officer and enlisted personnel each year, in 36 courses varying from one to 61 days in length.
In addition to training in all phases of Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Warfare and Employment of Conventional Weapons, a large percentage of NUWPNTRAGRUPAC's effort is devoted to inspections.
www.navynucweps.com /History/NWTGP_history.htm   (369 words)

  
 Baseball-based nuclear weapons delivery system - Uncyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Baseball-based nuclear weapons delivery system was first conceived in 1972 in Japan because:
Japan wanted to have nuclear weapons of its own.
The program was discontinued in 1996 due to the fact that the research centre was destroyed by a fight between Godzilla and Mothra over whose Tamogotchi (translates to: "Sitting and watching some pixels move around for a day on a tiny screen") was more of an evil creature of Satan.
uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Baseball-based_nuclear_weapons_delivery_system   (219 words)

  
 CNS - China's Nuclear Delivery System Modernization
In addition to nuclear warhead modernization, China is actively modernizing its nuclear delivery systems.
The bulk of China's nuclear missile force is land-based, and much of China's nuclear delivery system modernization has been in this area.
A new SSBN nuclear submarine, the 09-4, may be under development, with deployment predicted sometime after the year 2000.
cns.miis.edu /research/china/coxrep/wdsmdat.htm   (1329 words)

  
 Air Delivery of Nuclear Weapons   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Currently, there are not enough Tomatometer critic reviews for Air Delivery of Nuclear Weapons to receive a rating.
The atomic bomb was specifically designed for air delivery.
This detailed documentary, using long-classified films, details each of the approved delivery systems at the time of the development of nuclear weapons, along with a complete, in-flight demonstration of a nuclear bomb drop from an A-7 Corsair.
www.rottentomatoes.com /m/air_delivery_of_nuclear_weapons   (311 words)

  
 REPORT ON IRAQI CHEMICAL/NUCLEAR WARHEAD SYSTEMS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
A COPY OF BY l991 IRAQ HAD STOCK PILED ABOUT 150 SRBMS EQUIPPED WITH CHEMICAL WARHEADS.
THESE WEAPONS WERE CONCEALED IN WOODED AREAS THROUGHOUT IRAQ.
AS OF l991, IRAQ DID NOT HAVE ANY NUCLEAR WEAPONS DELIVERY CAPABILITY.
www.gulflink.osd.mil /scud_info/scud_info_refs/n41en018/cia_65693_65754_01.html   (73 words)

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