5 Gloriously Dangerous Ways People Used Early Inventions cracked.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cracked.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Explained: What Are Tactical Nuclear Weapons, Why Is Russia Stationing Them In Belarus Amid Ukraine War? outlookindia.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from outlookindia.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
tactical nuclear weapons, small nuclear warheads and delivery systems intended for use on the battlefield or for a limited strike. Less powerful than strategic nuclear weapons, tactical nuclear weapons are intended to devastate enemy targets in a specific area without causing widespread destruction and radioactive fallout. The United States began developing lightweight nuclear warheads in the 1950s. One of the first such devices was the W-54 warhead, whose explosive force, or yield, varied from 0.1 to 1 kiloton (1 kiloton is a force equal to 1,000 tons of TNT). By comparison, the atomic bombs dropped on Japan in World War