While slowly retiring multiple warhead land based nuclear missiles, it was building up single warhead missiles.

The Russian Federation was developing a new manoeuvrable warhead capable of avoiding missile defences and continued to manufacture single warhead silo launched missiles, with the deployment of a road mobile multiple warhead variant scheduled for 2006.

Later in 1998, other missile warhead fragments were sampled in Iraq.

(a) Authentication of warheads and components to establish that an item declared to be a nuclear warhead or a component from a nuclear warhead is consistent with those declarations

Using a verification system employing a combination of non destructive assay sensors measuring many warhead attributes or templates,7 it has proved possible to discriminate between different types of warhead or component.

Work on dismantlement involved consideration of the processes associated with dismantling any particular warhead, recognizing that many of these could be specific to the warhead, although some were likely to be generic.

This film shows the testing of a new explosive fill on a warhead.

Each stage in a warhead production process has its particular effluents and signatures.

Degradation products of VX were found on missile warhead fragments by one national laboratory.

If the warhead remains largely intact on impact then it will represent a real hazard to civilians.

Atomic visualisation

Atomic Tanks

Atomic Radiation

Atomic splitter

Atomic numbers

Atomic Number

Atomic Radius

Atomic mass

Atomic nucleus

Atomic Mass

Atomic Nuclear

Even if the nuclear warhead broke the asteroid into many small pieces, they could have time to re combine into another large object. In addition, the space vehicle carrying the weapon might malfunction, and the nuclear warhead could land (and perhaps detonate) somewhere on Earth.

Verification evidence can be accumulated from measurements of these materials, supported by measurement of other (potentially warhead related) emissions.

In these launching silos there were 104 intercontinental ballistic missiles, each of which was equipped with a nuclear warhead.

Draw atomic bonds

Draw atomic nuclei

Atomic Mass u

Atomic Radius pm

Gradient Atomic Radius

Atomic Mass Unit

The atomic age!

Enter the atomic bomb.

Effects of atomic radiation

Effects of atomic radiation

Effects of atomic radiation.

Effects of atomic radiation.

Enter the atomic number.

KDE Atomic Entertainment Game

EFFECTS OF ATOMIC RADIATION

The technologies employed in the production of a nuclear warhead are fundamentally the same as those found in many industrial environments.

If a guided missile crashes prior to arming, then the warhead may or may not experience an energetic reaction on impact.

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International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

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