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Parent topics
- Nuclear weapon [r]: A weapon that produces extremely powerful explosions from principles involving subatomic particle reactions, rather than the chemical reactions among atoms that power conventional explosives [e]
- United Kingdom [r]: Constitutional monarchy which includes England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. [e]
Subtopics
- Hurricane (fission device) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Royal Navy [r]: By long naval tradition, when there is no qualifier but "Royal", the navy being discussed is that of the United Kingdom. [e]
- Vanguard-class [r]: British-developed and operated ballistic missile submarines, armed with UGM-133 Trident D5 missiles with UK-built warheads [e]
- Royal Air Force [r]: The British military service primarily responsible for air warfare [e]
- Blue Danube (nuclear weapon) [r]: The first deployed (November 1953) British nuclear weapon, a gravity bomb implosion device carried by heavy bombers; design derived both from the British Hurricane physics package and the U.S. Mark 4 [e]
- Red Beard (nuclear weapon) [r]: U.K. 15-25 KT nuclear gravity bomb intended as a tactical nuclear weapon [e]
- Violet Club (nuclear weapon) [r]: Interim high-yield British nuclear weapon, in service 1956-1958, which met, through engineering and operational compromises, a gap before more advanced, and then true thermonuclear weapons were available [e]
- Red Snow (nuclear weapon) [r]: A British-built fusion device derived from the design of the U.S. B28 (nuclear weapon), and used as a physics package for the British Yellow Sun Mark 2 [e]
- Yellow Sun family(nuclear weapon) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Green Grass (nuclear weapon) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Green Bamboo (nuclear weapon) [r]: First weapon in the British Yellow Sun family of nuclear weapons; megaton-range gravity bomb; built but never test-fired; said to have been a layer cake (nuclear weapon) rather than a Teller-Ulam "true" thermonuclear device [e]
- Yellow Sun Mark 1 (nuclear weapon) [r]: Second weapon in the British Yellow Sun family of nuclear weapons; eventually used a Green Grass physics package in a Yellow Sun Mark 1 casing; 37 were stockpiled between 1961 and 1963; some physics packages were recycled Violet Clubs [e]
- Yellow Sun Mark 2 (nuclear weapon) [r]: Third weapon in the British Yellow Sun family of nuclear weapons; eventually used a Red Snow (nuclear weapon) physics package in a Yellow Sun Mark 2 casing; 83 were stockpiled between 1961 and 1966 [e]
- WE.177 (nuclear weapon) [r]: The final series of British-developed nuclear gravity bombs; "A" version was boosted fission in the low kiloton range, configured for bombing and as a depth charge; "C" version was a 200 KT thermonuclear weapon [e]
- British Army [r]: That part of the United Kingdom's armed forces with principal responsibility for land warfare [e]
- Blue Peacock (nuclear weapon) [r]: Planned UK nuclear weapon, a 10 KT atomic demolition munition based on the Blue Danube (nuclear weapon), with possible use of chicken technology [e]
- Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons [r]: The principal worldwide agreement for controlling the spread of nuclear weapons and nuclear weapons technology, without inhibiting the peaceful use of nuclear energy [e]