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from reuters: The last of a powerful class of nuclear weapons introduced into the U.S. arsenal at the height of the Cold War in 1962 was being dismantled on Tuesday at a nuclear weapons storage facility outside Amarillo, Texas. “This was one of the largest bombs in the American arsenal,” said Joshua McConaha, Public Affairs Director for the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration. He said the exact strength of the bomb — known as the B53 and being dismantled at the DOE’s B&W Pantex facility — remains classified, but it is believed to have been many hundreds of times more powerful than the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945.

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