Talk:Nuclear weapon

Who was?

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It was constructing additional bombs to be used in the planned October invasion of southern Japan.

The United States was?--David Yamakuchi 00:23, 24 June 2008 (CDT)

Correct; the United States was. According to the draft plans for the first phase of OPERATION DOWNFALL, the overall invasion of Japan, nine bombs were allocated to OPERATION OLYMPIC, scheduled for October 1945.

Production still had problems; contrary to the threat of a "rain of bombs", there were no other bombs immediately available after Nagasaki. I'll have to check sources, but, from memory, it would have been several weeks for another weapon to be available. Howard C. Berkowitz 08:14, 24 June 2008 (CDT)

Fusion and fission subpages

I moved the fission and fusion bomb articles to their own article pages. They seem far more likely to grow as clusters in their own right and be subtopics of nuclear weapon. Does that make sense? Chris Day 09:21, 15 September 2008 (CDT)

No problem at all; it makes good sense and it's easier to link to them. My motivation at the time, I suspect, was to explore article-specific subpages. Howard C. Berkowitz 09:47, 15 September 2008 (CDT)

Chris, there is reference to "subpage" in the nuclear weapon text that will need to change. Before I did that, I wanted to confirm the new article titles. Is it too pedantic to call them "device" rather than "bomb"? The rationales for doing so are both historical and operational. The first fission explosion at Trinity and first fusion explosion at Bikini were large test setups that could not have been used, in that form, as a weapon. Further, you'll find that I use the U.S. terminology in referring to "nuclear weapon, W53" or "B53" to refer to Physics Package 53 being used either as a warhead or a gravity bomb; this is usually hidden by redirects.

Who changes which links? Howard C. Berkowitz 09:53, 15 September 2008 (CDT)

As the redirects exist the links do not matter too much. To correct them you can go to the redirect and see "what links here". Then you can track down those links and change them to point to Fission bomb (or device). As for the name I have no horse in that race. Either sound fine to me but I have no idea of the nuances. Chris Day 10:02, 15 September 2008 (CDT)

Electromagnetic effects

Section contains redlinked image "Image:High altitude EMP2.GIF" David Finn 19:37, 20 March 2011 (UTC)