Blue Danube (nuclear weapon)
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title:
Blue Danube (nuclear weapon)
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Blue Danube was the first operational British nuclear weapon. It also went by a variety of other names, including Smallboy, the Mk.1 Atom Bomb, Special Bomb and OR.1001, a reference to the Operational Requirement it was built to fill. The RAF V bomber force was initially meant to use Blue Danube as their primary armament at a time when the first hydrogen bomb had not been detonated, and the British military planners still believed that an atomic war could be fought and won using atomic bombs of
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First British operational nuclear weapon
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Danube_(nuclear_weapon)
date created:
2004-05-18T22:57:28Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T20:17:18Z
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