This undated handout photo provided by the National Nuclear Security Administration shows the United States' last B53 nuclear bomb. The 10,000-pound bomb is scheduled to be dismantled Tuesday, Oct ...

The B53 was designed to destroy facilities deep underground, and it was carried by B-52 bombers. With its destruction, the next largest bomb in operation will be the B83, said Hans Kristensen, a ...

View full sizeThis undated handout photo provided by the National Nuclear Security Administration shows the United States' last B53 nuclear bomb. The 10,000-pound bomb is scheduled to be ...

This past week, the U.S. dismantled the last of its largest nuclear bombs, the B53. This was a Dr. Strangelove bomb, conjuring up images of armageddon and apocalypse. At the same time, one of the ...

The B53 nuclear bomb, America’s 600x version of Little Boy, is considerably more potent. The Castle Bravo thermonuclear hydrogen bomb is no slouch—almost 9,000 would eradicate what little ...

Texas scientists were disassembling the last of America's nuclear behemoths on Tuesday - a 10,000-pound atomic megabomb with 600 times the destructive power of the nuke dropped on Hiroshima.

The last of America's most powerful Cold War-era nuclear bombs - the B53 - has been dismantled in Texas. Experts have separated around 300lb (136kg) of high explosives from the bomb's uranium "pit".

How The U.S. Hid the Atomic Bomb; ... (A Mark 7, by comparison, only had a yield of 9 kilotons, which means the B53 bomb was 1,000 times more powerful than the weapon in the video.) ...

The last B53 bomb - hundreds of times more powerful than Hiroshima atomic bomb - is being disassembled at Texas plant Latest U.S.

The U.S. developed the B53 nuclear device, a thermonuclear weapon with a yield of 9 megatons. The Soviet Union answered with something much more horrifying, the Tsar Bomba. This bomb blew the ...

The B53 gravity bomb was the perfect Cold War weapon: dumb and powerful, it vastly outclassed the destructive force of the bombs that vaporized Hiroshima and Nagasaki. On Tuesday, the final B53 ...

The last B53 nuclear bomb, a powerful weapon some 600 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb, is dismantled in Texas.