B41

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The most powerful nuclear weapon the United States ever deployed: a three-stage thermonuclear bomb of up to 25 Mt, carried by B-52 and B-47 bombers. At 4,840 kg it reached about 5.2 Mt per tonne, the highest yield-to-weight ratio of any weapon fielded in its time.

About 500 were produced between September 1960 and June 1962, in a 25 Mt "dirty" version and a 10 Mt "clean" one. It was the only three-stage weapon in US service and was replaced by the B53 between 1963 and 1976.

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المصادر

1. Complete List of All U.S. Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Weapon Archive (Carey Sublette)
2. B41 nuclear bomb, Wikipedia