W88 ALTERATION 370 PROGRAM - Department of Energy

w88 bomb The W88 is an American thermonuclear warhead, with an estimated yield of 475 kilotons of TNT (1,990 TJ), [2] and is small enough to fit on MIRVed missiles. The W88 was designed at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the 1970s..

tai new88 bi  The W88 warhead, which can be launched on missiles from Ohio-class submarines, entered the nuclear weapons stockpile in 1988. Deployed now for more than 30 years, the warhead has been updated to maintain its current state of readiness.

ww880  safety and reliability standards. OVERVIEW The W88 nuclear warhead entered the stockpile in late 1988 and is deployed on the U.S. Navy’s Trident II D5 Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile (SLBM) system, carried onbo.