Nuclear pursuits

Journal Article · Sat May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1993 · Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists; (United States)

OSTI ID:6473603

This table lists quantities of warheads (in stockpile, peak number per year, total number built, number of known test explosions), weapon development milestones (developers of the atomic bomb and hydrogen bomb, date of first operational ICBM, first nuclear-powered naval SSN in service, first MIRVed missile deployed), and testing milestones (first fission test, type of boosted fission weapon, multistage thermonuclear test, number of months from fission bomb to multistage thermonuclear bomb, etc.), and nuclear infrastructure (assembly plants, plutonium production reactors, uranium enrichment plants, etc.). Countries included in the tally are the United States, Soviet Union, Britain, France, and China.

• OSTI ID: 6473603
• Journal Information: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists; (United States), Vol. 49:4; ISSN 0096-5243
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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98 NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, SAFEGUARDS, AND PHYSICAL PROTECTION
NUCLEAR WEAPONS
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TESTING
PROLIFERATION
HISTORICAL ASPECTS
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CHINA
COMPILED DATA
ENRICHED URANIUM
FISSION
FRANCE
MANAGEMENT
NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS
PLUTONIUM PRODUCTION REACTORS
UNITED KINGDOM
USA
USSR
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ASIA
DATA
DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
ELEMENTS
EUROPE
EXPLOSIONS
INFORMATION
ISOTOPE ENRICHED MATERIALS
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NUMERICAL DATA
PRODUCTION REACTORS
REACTORS
URANIUM
WEAPONS
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