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The B90 Nuclear Depth Strike Bomb (NDSB) was an American thermonuclear bomb designed at
University of California 1989 nuclear weapons labs status report
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The B90 Nuclear Depth Strike Bomb (NDSB) was an American thermonuclear bomb designed at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos National Laboratory (often shortened as Los Alamos and LANL) is one of the sixteen research and development Laboratory, laboratories of the United States Department of Energy National Laboratories, United States Department of Energy ...
in the mid-to-late 1980s and cancelled prior to introduction into military service due to the end of the Cold War
The Cold War was a period of global Geopolitics, geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc and communist Eastern Bloc, which lasted from 1947 unt ...
.
The B90 design was intended for use as a naval aircraft weapon, for use as a nuclear depth bomb
A nuclear depth bomb is the nuclear equivalent of a conventional depth charge, and can be used in anti-submarine warfare for attacking submerged submarines. The Royal Navy, Soviet Navy, and United States Navy all had nuclear depth bombs in th ...
and as a land attack strike bomb. It was intended to replace the B57 nuclear bomb
The B57 nuclear bomb was a tactical nuclear weapon developed by the United States during the Cold War.
Development began at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1960 to meet a requirement for a multi-purpose weapon, suitable for use as a nuclear ...
used by the Navy. The B90 bomb design entered Phase 3 development engineering and was assigned its numerical designation in June 1988.
The B90 was in diameter and long, and weighed . The B90's yield has been described at both and "low kt". This may indicate a variable yield weapon.
The B90 was cancelled in September 1991 along with the W89 and W91 nuclear warheads and AGM-131 SRAM II and SRAM-T missile models. No B90 production models were built, though test units may have been; US nuclear weapon testing continued until 1992.
See also
*List of nuclear weapons
This is a list of nuclear weapons listed according to country of origin, and then by type within the states. The United States, Russia, China and India are known to possess a nuclear triad, being capable to deliver nuclear weapons by land, sea a ...
References
External links
University of California 1989 nuclear weapons labs status report
at the Nuclear Weapon Archive a
nuclearweaponarchive.org
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