Contact preclusion
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title:
Contact preclusion
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Contact preclusion is a fuzing feature found in some nuclear weapons in which backup contact fuzes in a nuclear weapon can be disabled when the weapon is set to air burst fuzing. When a nuclear attack is planned, the planner has the option of deciding if either air burst or ground burst fuzing will be used. Air burst has a larger damage radius against soft targets such as personnel or non-hardened buildings than ground bursts due to the Mach stem effect, however in the event the air burst fuze f
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Type of nuclear weapon fuze
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_preclusion
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2023-11-21T07:01:03Z
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