Aug 262009
 

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  3 Responses to “What nuke is this?”

  1. Closest resemblance is to the B28 strategic & tactical thermonuclear bomb, built for a/c carriage from 1957 to sometime prior to the ’70s. No other nuke is blunt-nosed, though photo I have shows rectangular, not trapezoidal fins, and only one “ring.” Source:

    U.S. Nuclear Forces & Capabilities, V. 1 of the Nuclear Weapons Databoook series. authors Thomas Cochran, William Arkin, Milton Hoenig. Ballinger Pub. Co., Harper & Row, 1984

  2. Although it doesn’t look exactly like anything in Chuck Hansen’s “US Nuclear Weapons” book, my candidate would be some varient of the MK 105 “Hotpoint” bomb. This had different nose and tail sections that could be added to its W-34 warhead section for different missions, and one of the tail sections did have delta shaped fins, and there was a hemispherical nose section that could be added as well.

  3. “Duck Dodgers in the 21st an a half CENTUUUURRRRY!”

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