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Last Cold War-era B53 nuclear bomb dismantled in Texas

Last Cold War-era B53 nuclear bomb dismantled in Texas.

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Last Cold War-era B53 nuclear bomb dismantled in Texas

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  1. Last Cold War-era B53 nuclear bomb dismantled in Texas

  2. The last of America's most powerful Cold War-era nuclear bombs - the B53 - has been dismantled in Texas. Experts have separated around 300lb of high explosives from the bomb's uranium "pit". Weighing 10,000lb, the B53 was the size of a minivan and said to be 600 times more destructive than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945. It was first put into service at the height of the Cold War in 1962, and remained in the US arsenal until 1997. The bomb was designed to hit targets deep underground, such as bunkers in which military and civilian leaders might be sheltering. According to figures released by the US state department in May 2011, the US has 5,113 nuclear warheads in its current stockpile, down from 31,255 in 1967.

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