Bombs dropped from aircraft and munitions that scatter smaller bomblets, including the British Tallboy earthquake bomb, cluster munitions and the nuclear bombs and weapons planned in the 1950s. A weapon belongs here when its cited article describes it as a bomb or a cluster munition. It excludes hand grenades and mines. Large high-explosive and cluster bombs can destroy bridges, bunkers and viaducts, or scatter many submunitions over an area, and some of these projects were drawn up as nuclear weapons but never completed.
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Wikipedia: Tallboy (bomb)
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Tallboy or Bomb, Medium Capacity, 12,000 lb was an earthquake bomb developed by the British aeronautical engineer Barnes Wallis and used by the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War.
Cluster munition, Wikipedia
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A cluster munition is a form of air-dropped or ground-launched explosive weapon that releases or ejects smaller submunitions.
Wikipedia: Sundial (weapon)
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Sundial was the codename of one of two massive nuclear bombs planned for testing by the University of California Radiation Laboratory, Livermore Branch as part of a classified American weapons project in the early 1950s.
Wikipedia: Blue Peacock
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Blue Peacock, renamed from Blue Bunny and originally Brown Bunny, was a British tactical nuclear weapon project in the 1950s.
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