The last B-53 bomb – built in 1962, the year of the Cuban missile crisis – was
dismantled at the Pantex facility in Amarillo, the only place in the United
States that still builds, maintains and dismantles nuclear weapons.
Grey in colour, weighing 10,000 pounds (4,500 kilograms) and as big as a small
car, it had the power to wipe out an entire metropolitan area with its
nine-megaton yield when dropped from a B-52 bomber. Full Read
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