PRC Theft of Thermonuclear Warhead Design Information

W68 warheads for retired Poseidon C-3 SLBMs in - Retired 2,208 W 76 warheads for Trident I C-4 - Retired 1,018 warheads for B-52 and

US has never had low-yield SLBM warhead before: Polaris A1W47 W68 Trident I C4W76 Trident II D5W76

w68 slot 317, the Chevaline predacessor warhead on , which returns very tiny primary stage sizes So I found a picture of

w68 warhead warhead Only the 100 kT W-76, with 20% of the blast area, is much smaller The 50 kT W-68, with 14% of the blast area, was retired 30 years ago