The bunker-busting nuclear bomb that almost was

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Terrible decisions in radioactive packages Phil Schmitten, United States Department of Defense, via Wikimedia Commons Four B-61 nuclear bombs on a bomb cart While the United States cancelled the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetator, a massive bunker busting nuke, it retains some B61-11 nuclear bombs designed to hit shallow underground targets. (The bombs pictured here are not…

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