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Image: B-61 bomb (DOE)

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Description: Image of a B-61 thermonuclear weapon. In the back it is assembled, in the middle it is divided into its major subcomponents, in the front it is almost completely disassembled. The warhead is contained in the bullet-shaped silver canister (see Image:W80_nuclear_warhead.jpg for a different, but similarly shaped, warhead casing).
Title: B-61 bomb (DOE)
Credit: Immediate source: Chuck Hansen, The Swords of Armageddon: U.S. Nuclear Weapons Development Since 1945 (Sunnyvale, CA: Chukelea Publications, 1995)[1]
Author: US government DOD and/or DOE
Permission: US government DOD and/or DOE photograph. Public domain as work of U.S. federal government.
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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