BACKPACK NUCLEAR WEAPONS

The following Links will take the reader to some truly amazing images of the U.S. Army's smallest Battlefield Nuclear Weapon the W54.
(fired from a 150mm Recoiless Rifle no less !?!)

In-depth articles on construction techniques, and the materials required.
(YES Reactor-Grade Plutonium CAN be used to make Atomic Bombs !!)

Suit-Case Nukes that the Soviet KGB and GRU built for all of their Terrorist Allies, and "may" have cached in the U.S. ?!?

This all came from Public Domain Resources, so all our "Buddies" in the Middle-East have had full access to this same information for years.

• The DAVEY CROCKETT (W54), Smallest US Nuclear Weapon
• "SUIT-CASE"  NUKES, on the LOOSE !?!
• DETAILS on ALL U.S. NUCLEAR WEAPONS
• FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS in the DESIGN of NUCLEAR WEAPONS
• FISSION (ATOMIC) WEAPON DESIGNS
• ELEMENTS of THERMONUCLEAR (H-BOMB) WEAPON DESIGNS

From the Federation of American Scientists website
(who used to host the above articles but not anymore)
we have these rather "sanitized" articles.

• Introduction to Special Weapons (Nuclear, Biological, Chemical)
• Nuclear Weapons
• Nuclear Weapons Design
• Nuclear Weapon Effects
• Uranium Production
• Plutonium Production