:The section of our article on Warhead Design Safety explains why the thermonuclear weapons accidentally dropped at Palomares didn't detonate with a nuclear yield.
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As the ship is carrying several tons of explosive materials a well placed missile strike would equal a nuclear yield blast without the radioactive fallout.
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In preparation for the first nuclear device test on July 16, 1945, which was codenamed nuclear yield by collecting fission products at the detonation site.
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The report argues that better earth-penetrating nuclear weapons with lower nuclear yields would be useful since they could achieve equal damage with less nuclear fallout.
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It is not clear whether this was intended as an indication of the reporter's poor understanding of nuclear yields or an error in the script .)
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Security features include next-generation permissive action link ( PAL ) and a command disablement system ( CDS ), rendering the weapon tactically useless without a nuclear yield.
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The nuclear yield is hinted at in " FM 9-11 : Operation and Employment of the Davy Crockett Battlefield Missile, XM-28 / 29 " ( June 1963 ).
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Reduction in the fission yield of a primary will reduce the thermonuclear nuclear yield by a similar proportion, or even lead to the thermonuclear fusion stage failing to ignite.
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A glowing purple cloud was faintly visible for a few minutes . " The nuclear yield was reported in most official documents only as being less than 20 kilotons.
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Originally fitted on short-range rockets, artillery shells, cruise missiles and dumb bombs and mines, they have significantly less nuclear yield than a strategic warhead, which could easily level an entire city.
