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You may have seen this already, but this video showing a tactical nuclear weapon delivery by an F-104 Starfighter during a test most probably dating back to the end of 1950s - early 1960s deserves a comment. The one featured in the video appears to be a B43, a variable yield thermonuclear weapon used by a wide variety of aircraft. Developed from 1955, it entered production in 1959. 2,000 such bombs were produced between 1959 and 1965. There were two B43 variants: Mod. 1 and Mod. 2, each with exp