5-578: W45 may refer to: W45 (nuclear warhead) Luray Caverns Airport , in Page County, Virginia, United States Mizuho Station , in Hokkaido, Japan W45, a classification in masters athletics W45, a Toyota W transmission Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title W45 . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
10-687: The ADM role having precluded the possibility of such a device. Instead, the warhead received a three-digit combination padlock to restrict access to the device. Among six of the 16 LLNL-developed warhead designs that entered the US nuclear weapon stockpile beginning in 1958, the W45 entered the stockpile in 1962, around the time of the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty signing in 1963. The W45 was one of three designs that needed revision following testing after finding problems, for
15-548: The early 1960s, first built in 1962 and fielded in some applications until 1988. It had a diameter of 11.5 inches (290 mm), a length of 27 inches (690 mm) and weighed 150 pounds (68 kg). The yields of different W45 versions were 0.5, 1, 5, 8, 10, and 15 kilotons . The W45 was designed at the Livermore branch of the University of California Radiation Laboratory (UCRL), now Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). It
20-435: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=W45&oldid=1174359702 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages W45 (nuclear warhead) The W45 was a multipurpose American nuclear warhead developed in
25-616: Was developed in part during 1958-1961. W45 used a common nuclear fission core called the Robin primary , which was used as the fission primary in the thermonuclear W38 and W47 weapons. In January 1960, the MADM version of the W45 was assigned the name W45 Mod 1. This version of the warhead was only different from the W45 Mod 0 used in Little John and Terrier in that it had no environmental sensing device,
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