Nuclear bunker buster
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Nuclear bunker buster, also known as earth-penetrating weapon (EPW), is the nuclear weapon version of the bunker buster. The non-nuclear component of the weapon is designed to penetrate into soil, rock, or concrete to deliver a nuclear warhead to a target. These weapons would be used to destroy hardened, underground military bunkers buried deep in the ground. In theory, the amount of radioactive nuclear fallout would be reduced from that of a standard, air-burst nuclear detonation because they would have relatively low explosive yield. However, because such weapons necessarily come into contact with large amounts of earth-based debris, they may, under certain circumstances, still generate...
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