A W68 warhead in a Mk3 reentry Body. See image below for scale.
Type
Nuclear weapon
Service history
In service
1971-1991
Used by
United States.
Production history
Designer
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Produced
June 1970 - June 1975
No. built
5250
Specifications
Mass
367 pounds (166 kg)
Detonation mechanism
Contact, airburst
Blast yield
40 kilotonnes of TNT (170 TJ)
W68 with table and models for scale.
The W68 warhead was the warhead used on the UGM-73 Poseidon SLBM missile. It was developed in the late 1960s at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
The W68 warhead was the warhead used on the UGM-73 Poseidon SLBM missile. It was developed in the late 1960s at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory...
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Media type Print (Hardcover and Paperback) and e-book Pages 224 ISBN 978-0-7352-1389-0 OCLC 1101143948 Dewey Decimal 813/.6 LC Class PS3611.W68 I53 2019...
known as pits) of the W89 warheads were planned to be reused from existing W68 warhead pits, which were surplus at the time. Lawrence Livermore engineers...
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most numerous weapon in the US nuclear arsenal, having replaced the 50 kt W68 that was fitted to the Poseidon SLBM in that capacity. The United Kingdom...
pentolite, a 50/50 blend with TNT. The XTX8003 extrudable explosive, used in the W68 and W76 nuclear warheads, is a mixture of 80% PETN and 20% of Sylgard 182...
quickly became less prominent with the 1970s mass production runs of the 50 Kt W68, the 100 Kt W76 and in the 1980s, with the B61. This trend towards miniaturization...
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recombination nodules in two alleles of the Drosophila meiotic mutant mei-W68". Genetics. 163 (4): 1337–56. doi:10.1093/genetics/163.4.1337. PMC 1462523...
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