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Nuclear Weapons and Strategic Bombs

This group collects the Missiles And Guided Munitions subcategory's nuclear weapons and non-missile strategic bombs: named nuclear weapons and thermonuclear devices described by their explosive mechanism rather than a missile delivery system, along with large-yield conventional bombs such as an earthquake bomb and a flying bomb from the era before guided cruise and ballistic missiles existed. Its 10 members are the warhead or bomb itself rather than the missile or aircraft that delivers it; a named delivery missile that happens to carry a nuclear warhead, such as an ICBM or a nuclear-armed cruise missile, is classified instead under the sibling Ballistic Missiles or Cruise Missiles group by its own delivery mechanism.

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1. Wikipedia: Nuclear weapon
WikipediaNuclear weapon, Testing and deployment section
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On 6 August 1945, the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) detonated a uranium gun-type fission bomb nicknamed "Little Boy" over the Japanese city of Hiroshima; three days later, on 9 August, the USAAF detonated a plutonium implosion-type fission bomb nicknamed "Fat Man" over the Japanese city of Nagasaki.
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