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w88 warhead The W88 nuclear warhead entered the stockpile in late 1988 and is deployed on the Navy’s Trident II D5 Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile (SLBM) system, carried onboard Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines..
w887 The W88 Alteration 370 program updates the nuclear warhead for the U.S. Navy's Trident II D5 submarine-launched ballistic missile system. Learn about the program's overview, accomplishments, current status, and future milestones.
nêw88 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.