Operations Manual

1945 onwards (strategic and tactical delivery systems) An insight into the science, design and engineering of tactical and strategic nuclear delivery systems =" lacie! Rs toe, Sin =

--- TABLE DES MATIERES / CONTENTS --- Contents ——_— ER [Te new pes Gaining energy a Another source 21 Urgency [Te American Pern —_ — Courting reaction re The Atomic Age 36 Time to test 45 The physics of the Super 56 US tests 61 French tests | 139 Project Ploughshare 65 The French stockpile 139 US stockpile 66 AN air-launched series 140 Land-based warheads 141 = 1 crt h 4 | The Russian bomb Submarine-based warheads 42 Sa ‘ [] 144 | The Chinese bomb | 81 Russian tests ë a The Russian stockpile 87 UCCESS 5 Chinese tests 157 The Chinese stockpile 157 [EM |The British bomb | ° A working bomb 96 El: Other nuclear powers nuclear Other nuclear powers Testing the bomb 100 British tests 108 India The British stockpile 108 Pakistan L ae US warheads to Britain 110 Fee 172 North Korea 175 Aspirant powers 177 ABOVE RIGHT The lvy Mike shot on 1 November 1952 had | The big stick a yield of 10.4MT, the world’s first thermonuclear explosion. ce DRE Poser OPPOSITE On 8 June 1958 the Hardtack Umbrella shot Bans and denuclearisation detonated an 8KT device 46m (150ft) below the surface at the bott f the Pokon lagoon, Eniwetok, to test the effect of . as Se ie Hi 194 | Abbreviations and glossary…