Green Bamboo (nuclear weapon)

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Green Bamboo was weapon in the British Yellow Sun family of nuclear weapons, a megaton-range gravity bomb. It was built but never test-fired.

While it was in the yield range characteristic of fusion devices, it is said to have been a layer cake (nuclear weapon) rather than a Teller-Ulam "true" thermonuclear device. [1]

References

  1. Donald McIntyre (2006), The Development of Britain’s Megaton Warheads, University of Chester, MA Dissertation, pp. 18-25