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Craig Fry

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So Cal.
May 10, 2016 - 07:42am PT
Tactical nuclear weapon


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U.S. officials view a W54 nuclear warhead (with a 10 or 20 ton explosive yield) as used on the Davy Crockett recoilless gun. The unusually small size of this tactical nuclear weapon is visible.
A tactical nuclear weapon (or TNW) also known as non-strategic nuclear weapon[1] refers to a nuclear weapon which is designed to be used on a battlefield in military situations, mostly with friendly forces in proximity and perhaps even on contested friendly territory. This is opposed to strategic nuclear weapons which are designed to be mostly targeted in the enemy interior away from the war front against nuclear forces, cities, factories, and other hardened or larger-area targets to damage the enemy's ability to wage war. Tactical nuclear weapons were a large part of the peak nuclear weapons stockpile levels during the Cold War.


Was a tactical nuclear weapon, or neutron bomb, detonated in Yemen ...

https://www.quora.com/Was-a-tactical-nuclear-weapon-or-neutron-bomb-deton...

That's not a nuclear explosion. It's just a big conventional explosion, likely due to a conventional weapons depot being hit by a conventional missile. Big e...
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