The W76 is an American thermonuclear warhead, designed for use on the UGM-96 Trident I submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) and subsequently moved to the UGM-133 Trident II as Trident I was phased out of service. The first variant, the W76 mod 0 (W76-0) was manufactured from 1978 to 1987.

Jan 9, 2007 · The W76 is the warhead used with the Mk 4 reentry vehicle which arms Trident II (D-5) submarine launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs). Designed for use on MIRV (multiple independently targeted reentry vehicle) bus upper stage.

Jan 30, 2020 · The W76-2 is a small, tactical nuclear warhead designed to counter enemy tactical nuclear weapons. The warhead is actually derived from the existing W76 warhead, each of which is large enough...

Dec 23, 2024 · The W76-2 “low-yield” Trident warhead is dangerous, unjustified, and redundant. Background: The W76-2 nuclear warhead is a “low-yield” warhead called for by the first Trump administration's 2018 Nuclear Posture Review.

The W76-1 is a refurbished W76-0 warhead, which is a submarine-launched ballistic missile system first introduced into the stockpile for the U.S. Navy in 1978. This LEP has strengthened the...

WASHINGTON — A new nuclear warhead requested, designed and produced under the Trump administration, has been deployed aboard a nuclear submarine, the Pentagon confirmed Tuesday.

Feb 18, 2020 · In 2003, after the invasion of Iraq, some Air Force generals proposed building a new low-yield nuclear warhead that could burrow underground before exploding; they saw it as the ideal weapon for...

Sep 10, 2020 · President Trump told journalist Bob Woodward he had built a new nuclear weapon system. Trump did not elaborate, but the weapon is probably the new W76-2 low-yield nuclear warhead. The W76-2 is...

The W76 warhead used on the Trident-II is a two stage hydrogen bomb, as are most modern nuclear weapons. The detonation of a relatively low yield implosion fission device - the primary -...

Apr 7, 2021 · Whereas the four 90- or 100-kiloton independently reentering warheads carried on a standard Trident each explode with six times the force of the Little Boy uranium bomb that killed over 60,000...