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Ivy King was the largest pure-fission nuclear bomb ever tested by the United States. [1] The bomb was tested during the Truman administration as part of Operation Ivy.This series of tests involved the development of very powerful nuclear weapons in response to the nuclear weapons program of the Soviet Union.
RDS-27, 250 kiloton bomb, a 'boosted' fission bomb tested 6 November 1955. RDS-37, 3 megaton bomb, the first Soviet two-stage hydrogen bomb, tested 22 November 1955; RDS-220 Tsar Bomba an extremely large three stage bomb, initially designed as a 100-megaton-bomb, but was scaled down to 50 megatons for testing. Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles
The Mark 18 nuclear bomb, also known as the SOB or Super Oralloy Bomb, was an American nuclear bomb design which was the highest yield fission bomb produced by the US. The Mark 18 had a design yield of 500 kilotons. Nuclear weapon designer Ted Taylor was the lead designer for the Mark 18. The Ivy King test firing of the Mark 18 SOB design
The Castle Bravo shot of 1 March 1954, at Bikini Atoll, was the first test of a deployable (solid fuel) thermonuclear weapon, and also (accidentally) [citation needed] the largest weapon ever tested by the United States (15 megatons). It was also the single largest U.S. radiological accident in connection with nuclear testing.
The "Mike" shot was the first multi-megaton thermonuclear weapon. Upshot-Knothole: 1953 11: 11: 11: small to 61 252: 18,000 men exposed in Desert Rock V up to 26.6 REM. 84 exceeded current yearly limits of 5 REM/yr. Castle: 1954 6: 6: 6: 110 to 15,000 48,200: Bravo shot inspired secret Project 4.1 to study fallout victims. It over-produced by ...
The largest pure-fission bomb ever constructed, Ivy King, had a 500 kilotonne yield, [2] which is probably in the range of the upper limit on such designs. [ citation needed ] Fusion boosting could likely raise the efficiency of such a weapon significantly, but eventually all fission-based weapons have an upper yield limit due to the ...
The Tsar Bomba is the single most physically powerful device ever deployed on Earth, the most powerful nuclear bomb tested and the largest human-made explosion in history. [64] For comparison, the largest weapon ever produced by the US, the now-decommissioned B41 , had a predicted maximum yield of 25 Mt (100 PJ).
The largest-yield pure-fission weapon, the 500-kiloton Mark 18 nuclear bomb, used a hollow pit composed of more than 60 kg of highly enriched uranium, about four critical masses; the safing was done with an aluminium–boron chain inserted in the pit.