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Parent topics
- United States nuclear weapons [r]: All U.S. nuclear weapons, past or present, in deployment, production, or approved for production; not including experimental devices [e]
- Strategic nuclear weapon [r]: A nuclear weapon used deep enemy territory, affecting military forces in the homeland, or population, industry, and infrastructure; often launched from outside the theater of operations [e]
- Submarine-launched ballistic missile [r]: A ballistic missile launched from a normally submerged submarine, which has multiple engineering challenges, chief among them being computing a correct ballistic trajectory from a varying point of launch (POL) [e]
Subtopics
- UGM-27 Polaris [r]: The first operational submarine-launched ballistic missile, of medium to intermediate range [e]
- Beryllium reflector [r]: Beryllium, an element with a low-Z (atomic number), is an effective reflector of neutrons; by surrounding a fission device with a neutron reflector to reduce escape and increase the neutron density in the reaction, fission efficiency climbs [e]
- Tritium boosting [r]: A means of increasing the number and intensity of neutrons released during the implosion of a fission device, by the precisely timed introduction of tritium, and usually deuterium, gas [e]