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Nuclear weapons
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Nuclear weapons delivery is the technology and systems used to place a nuclear weapon at the position of detonation, on or near its target. Several methods have been developed to carry out this task.
Strategic nuclear weapons are used primarily as part of a doctrine of deterrence by threatening large targets, such as cities. Weapons meant for use in limited military maneuvers such as destroying specific military, communications, or infrastructure targets, are known as tactical nuclear weapons. In terms of explosive yields, nowadays the former have much larger yield than the latter, even though it is not a rule. The bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 (with TNT equivalents between 15 and 22 kilotons) were weaker than many of today's tactical weapons, yet they achieved the desired effect when used strategically.
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component of the weapon is designed to penetrate soil, rock, or concrete to deliver a nuclear warhead to an underground target. These weapons would be used...
the Biological Weapons Convention since 1975, the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of NuclearWeapons since 1991, and the Chemical Weapons Convention since...
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three types of weapons of mass destruction: nuclearweapons, biological weapons, and chemical weapons. It is one of the five nuclear-weapon states recognized...
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pushing for an end to nuclearweapons testing, reduction in nuclear arsenals, a ban on all chemical and biological weapons, bans on weapons in outer space,...
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of NuclearWeapons (TPNW), or the NuclearWeapon Ban Treaty, is the first legally binding international agreement to comprehensively prohibit nuclear weapons...
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