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	The BAC TSR.2
		In a strategic nuclear strike mission, the TSR.2 would carry a single "Red Beard" strategic nuclear weapon in its bombbay.
		The Red Beard would be delivered in a "toss bombing" attack, in which the aircraft would release the bomb in a climb and fly away on afterburner before weapon detonation.
		In a tactical nuclear strike mission, the TSR.2 would carry a total of four "WE.177" tactical nuclear weapons, with two in the bombbay and two on underwing pylons, laid down in level strike using retarding parachutes.
	www.vectorsite.net /avtsr2.html (3766 words)

	The Blackburn Buccaneer
		Total weapons load was to be 1.8 tonnes (4,000 pounds); the length could be no more than 15.5 meters (51 feet) in stowed configuration to allow accommodation on existing carrier-deck elevators; and the maximum weight was to be no more than 20.4 tonnes (45,000 pounds).
		Red Beard was an unsophisticated weapon and had to be armed before launch instead of in flight, clearly an undesireable feature.
		The Red Beard nuclear weapon was phased out in 1970, replaced by the WE-177A, a parachute-retarded 270 kilogram (600 pound) bomb that is believed to have been made in several yield options, though details are still classified.
	www.vectorsite.net /avbucc.html (7072 words)

	Memorable Quotes from "The Red Green Show" (1991) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Red Green: Two things you need at a bar is ice and water; water for mixing drinks and ice to drop into people's shorts and into their hats, depending on where their hangover is.
		Red Green: What you're looking at now are a bunch of segments from this particular show, the main message being, "For gosh sakes, don't even think about changing the channel!" I'll tell you something, if you want to make sense out of this program, you got to give it your undivided attention.
		Red Green: Okay, so Old Man Sedgwick's son has moved back in with him, and you can tell by the broken furniture out on the front lawn, and the duct tape they got dividing the rooms exactly in half, and things are really not going all that well.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0101177/quotes (6358 words)

	Where Her Majesty's weapons were \| thebulletin.org
		In 1960 and 1961, British tactical nuclear weapons began to be deployed overseas on Royal Navy aircraft carriers, and at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus.
		In September 1960, a dummy Red Beard weapon was flown for the first time by RAF transport aircraft to Singapore, via El Adem, in Libya; Khormaksar, in present-day Yemen; and Gan.
		The live weapons were to be held at all times in their special storage area, but in November 1963 permission was granted to train with dummy weapons in the open.
	www.thebulletin.org /article.php?art_ofn=jf01moore_050 (3432 words)

	redbeard2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Red Beard was developed as a free fall tactical nuclear weapon for deployment on tactical aircraft such as the Buccaneer.
		Red Beard was euphemistically referred to as a "Target Marker B" and was available in the following yields: 15Kt in the Mk1 and 25Kt in the Mk2.
		Royal Navy Supermarine Scimitars were celebrated carriers of Red Beard, but there was a blanket ban on Scimitars landing on carriers while carrying Red Beard, just in case the jolt of an arrested landing created a situation.
	www.skomer.u-net.com /projects/redbeard.htm (118 words)

	NukeWatch UK
		A RAF nuclear weapon load carrier carrying tow warheads for Polaris missiles was involved in a collision with a private car.
		A RAF nuclear weapon load carrier carrying two WE177 nuclear weapons, seeking to avoid a stationary private vehicle, left the road after skidding on ice and rolled on to its side.
		The weapon casing suffered superficial damage from a toolbox which was fitted as standard to the inside of the container.
	nukewatch-scotland.org.uk /accidents.php (1401 words)

	MILNET: Carey Sublette's Nuclear Weapons FAQ
		These were the most sophisticated weapon then available to the U.S. With this flood of data, backed by numerous tests, and representing weapons that had been engineered to a high state of sophistication and had been manufactured in large numbers, the British abandoned the idea of developing and fielding their own designs.
		Weapons grade plutonium production tends to interfere with the most economical production of electricity (requiring more uranium for fuel, longer shut down times, and more spent fuel handling), so they were not operated continuously for weapons grade plutonium production.
		The TN-80/81 warhead is a miniaturized, hardened nuclear warhead for the ASMP air-surface missile.
	www.milnet.com /nukeweap/Nfaq7-2.html (21612 words)

	Untitled
		In a similar way the trend in nuclear weapons seems to be away from size and quantity to fewer more precise weapons in the major nuclear states.
		Red Beard, as issued, was a 15Kt device, of which 171 were eventually made for both RAF and Royal Navy use.
		The Red Beard weapon may have been stored here and possibly later weapons at least for a short while, but this is not confirmed.
	www.century20war.co.uk /page5.html (2674 words)

	Operation Buffalo - 1956
		This was mainly a weapons effects series, conducted to observe the effects of an atomic explosion on tanks, aircraft, medical equipment, test dummies, etc. These experiments were demonstrated to various Australian, New Zealand, Canadian and British military personnel.
		Among the weapons development responsibilities conducted during Buffalo were tests of the Red Beard tactical nuclear bomb and Blue Danube Mark-I bomb.
		It was a test of the Red Beard tactical bomb and yielded 15 kilotons, the largest nuclear test fired during Buffalo.
	www.atomicforum.org /uk/buffalo.html (617 words)

	MercuryNews.com \| 06/23/2003 \| Expert exposes nuclear threat
		The son of a schoolteacher and an engineering professor from the southern Russian city of Samara, Shingarkin dreamed from the age of 5 of wearing the uniform of the Red Army and serving his motherland.
		There he attracted the attention of the 12th Main Directorate, or 12th GUMO as it is known by its Russian acronym, an elite unit charged with maintaining, transporting and protecting the country's nuclear weapons.
		One of the men who maintains the weapons came up and lifted the top off a container and there was a nuclear warhead.
	www.mercurynews.com /mld/mercurynews/news/6153052.htm (548 words)

	The Progressive Mind: Nuclear War against Iran (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Administration officials argue that low-yield nuclear weapons are needed as a credible deterrent against rogue states.[Iran, North Korea] Their logic is that existing nuclear weapons are too destructive to be used except in a full-scale nuclear war.
		A preemptive nuclear attack using tactical nuclear weapons would be coordinated out of US Strategic Command Headquarters at the Offutt Air Force base in Nebraska, in liaison with US and coalition command units in the Persian Gulf, the Diego Garcia military base, Israel and Turkey.
		Nuclear specialists and governmental sources pointed out that one of its main missions would be to implement the 2001 nuclear strategy that includes an option of preemptive nuclear attacks on 'rogue states' with WMDs.
	theprogressivemind.info /2006/01/nuclear-war-against-iran.html (4608 words)

	"Ministry of Defence (UK) Nuclear Declassification Seminar"
		Secondly we need to maintain the deterrence value of our nuclear forces and as the Minister said this has traditionally been achieved by creating uncertainty in the minds of potential aggressors over what our capability is in terms of numbers of weapons and their detailed performance.
		In addition to proliferation concerns over nuclear weapons there are separate concerns over proliferation of ballistic missile technology which might have an impact on the releaseability of some historical information.
		The basic principles of how a nuclear weapon works are now well known and much of the fundamental and indeed applied science is readily available in the scientific literature.
	www.fas.org /sgp/news/modroper.html (1402 words)

	The Secret Squirrels--April 1994
		Colonel Beard was asked for a last-minute favor: help with making out wills, which a few of the men had, for some reason, neglected to prepare.
		Colonel Beard didn't mind, though; there were few other favors he could do for his men.
		Colonel Beard was determined that they would not resort to a divert field.
	www.afa.org /magazine/perspectives/desert_storm/0494squirrels.asp (3155 words)

	UK Nuclear
		When the [nuclear] tests are completed, as they soon will be, we shall be in the same position as the United States or Soviet Russia.
		This was another test of the Red Beard light weight tactical bomb with some fusion fuel included as a fusion physics experiment to supplement to Mosaic data.
		All subsequent UK nuclear weapons are based on US designs, which were made available to Britain.
	dr.abdulqadeer.8m.net /uk.htm (1601 words)

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		This high level of nuclear cooperation is indicative of the enduring "special relationship" between the U.S. and U.K. Though the British Ministry of Defense has stated that the warheads are of British design, it appears that they are very close copies of the American W76 warhead, with much of the design shared and duplicated.
		Article I of the NPT forbids transfer of nuclear weapons to "any recipient whatsoever." However, in practical terms, these allegations have not resonated with either the public or policymakers.
		The first Tornados modified to carry nuclear weapons were based in Germany in 1984.
	www.cdi.org /nuclear/database/uknukes.html (1932 words)

	NPP Weekly FLASH Update, March 2, 2001
		They said that a nuclear test was carried out southwest of Baghdad in September 1989 and that, despite UN inspections, further tests have been carried out and Iraq now has several bombs stored in a bunker north of Baghdad.
		By 1960 the RAF was involved in drawing up nuclear targeting plans for use by the South East Asia Treaty Organization and had made plans to move 48 Red Beard tactical nuclear weapons to Singapore in 1962.
		Zhang argues that commercial satellite imagery can be used to monitor nuclear production sites and therefore be used to verify international treaties, but that existing nuclear powers must also devalue their own nuclear forces by not producing missile defense systems and by agreeing to drastic arms cuts.
	www.nautilus.org /archives/nukepolicy/Flash2000/V3N9.html (1854 words)

	Air Power Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		This aircraft was to be capable of operating from poor quality strips, and delivering the Red Beard theatre (tactical) nuclear weapon against defended targets up to 1000 NM away, under any weather conditions.
		A fully automatic toss mode was included for nuclear delivery, during which a pitch up, automatic arming and release of the bomb and wing-over escape manoeuvre would be flown by the onboard computers.
		The nominal payload for the tactical nuclear mission was to be a single UK designed Red Beard which was a second generation lightweight tactical fission weapon.
	www.ausairpower.net /Profile-BAC-TSR.2.html (4082 words)

	KGB Investigative Assets: Insights
		His own experts assured him that the nightmare weapon was not a pipe dream or a saboteur's cunning act of disinformation.
		Stalin exploded the U.S. four year old nuclear monopoly (16 July 1945-29 August 1949) and he nuked the notion widespread in America that it could maintain the secret of the bomb's construction.
		Hall worried that an American monopoly of nuclear weapons endangered the world, in a post-war world beset by economic and ideological problems.
	www.pbs.org /redfiles/kgb/inv/kgb_inv_ins.htm (3178 words)

	Red Beard (tactical) Enters Service
		A Royal Navy Buccaneer drops its inert Red Beard tactical nuclear weapon during a trial in 1965.
		The weapon Red Beard had a single stage kiloton warhead which had been tested in the Buffalo series of trials at Maralinga in Australia, in 1956.
		Although the design concept was similar to the Blue Danube warhead, an innovative means of implosion meant that the overall size could be greatly reduced; Red Beard had an all-up weight of about 2000 pounds.
	www.awe.co.uk /main_site/about_awe/history/timeline/1960/index.html (103 words)

	we1772 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		WE 177 was developed as a free fall tactical nuclear weapon for deployment on tactical aircraft such as the Buccaneer, Vulcan and later Tornado.
		Thermonuclear weapon derived from the RE.179 warhead intended for the UK Skybolt.
		This was a nuclear depth charge for the Royal Navy.
	www.skomer.u-net.com /projects/we177.htm (119 words)

	history
		The chart below represents the complete story of the early UK nuclear weapon testing, which took place in Australia between 1952 and 1958.
		In all a total of 21 warheads were exploded, in various positions from the sea when HMS Plym was destroyed, to air and tower drops.
		It is now believed from information available at the Public Records Office that none of the tests gave sufficient information to the scientists to be able to produce an operational service weapon, hence the reason that all our early weapons took some design and technology from the US.
	www.keconnect.co.uk /~defcon/history.htm (165 words)

	The British, Muslim Terrorism and September 11, Part Two
		Bhutto was hated by the British globalists for withdrawing Pakistan from the British Commonwealth, for implementing nationalistic policies, for leaning towards the Soviets and for seeking to develop nuclear energy.
		In 1974 members of this group tried to take over a military academy, capture weapons and then move on an assembly where Sadat was speaking.
		The terrorists had used these trucks to help them smuggle in weapons that were then stashed inside the mosque prior to the takeover.
	www.redmoonrising.com /Ikhwan/MB.htm (19379 words)

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