US’s most powerful nuclear bomb being dismantled in Texas

The last of the nation’s most powerful nuclear bombs — a weapon hundreds of times stronger than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima — is being disassembled nearly half a century after it was put into service at the height of the Cold War.

The final components of the B53 bomb will be broken down Tuesday at the Pantex Plant near Amarillo, the nation’s only nuclear weapons assembly and disassembly facility. The completion of the dismantling program is a year ahead of schedule, according to the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration, and aligns with President Barack Obama’s goal of reducing the number of nuclear weapons.

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It looks like a large hot water heater or propane tank.

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2 Responses to US’s most powerful nuclear bomb being dismantled in Texas

  1. dan says:

    I'm gonna miss old B53

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