X-Nico

unusual facts about nuclear bomb



General Intelligence and Security Service

letting go of Abdul Qadeer Khan, who stole Dutch nuclear knowledge and used it for Pakistan to produce its nuclear bomb.

Željava Air Base

The complex was designed and built to sustain a direct hit from a 20-kiloton nuclear bomb, equivalent to the one dropped on Nagasaki.


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David Wolf: Secret Agent

The player is David Wolf, a secret agent who must stop a criminal organization called Viper from using a stealth fighter to deliver a nuclear bomb to Washington, D.C. Several action scenes allow the player to attempt to perform various feats for David Wolf, such as flying a hang glider while shooting down enemies, racing down a highway while dueling with helicopters, or landing on an enemy parachutist or landing on top of a moving truck.

Father of All Bombs

Robert Hewson, an editor for Jane's Information Group, told the BBC it was likely that FOAB indeed represented the world's biggest non-nuclear bomb.

France–Israel relations

In Michael Karpin's 2001 documentary A Bomb in the Basement, Abel Thomas, chief of political staff for France's defense minister at the time said Francis Perrin, head of the French Atomic Energy Commission, advised then-Prime Minister Guy Mollet that Israel should be provided with a nuclear bomb.

Hans von Halban

The CEA Saclay laboratory developed the independent French nuclear bomb and oversaw the development of French civil nuclear energy.

Mark 41

Mk 41 or B41 nuclear bomb, the highest-yield nuclear bomb designed by the United States military

Vitro Corporation

In 1953 Vitro acquired the Kellex Corporation, a company involved in the development of the nuclear bomb.