Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-15

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00:01:11 1 Base principle
00:05:07 2 Methods of operation
00:05:17 2.1 Penetration by explosive force
00:06:50 2.2 Hardened penetrator
00:08:35 2.3 Combination penetrator-explosive munitions
00:09:12 3 Policy and criticism of fallout
00:14:18 4 Targets and the development of bunker busters
00:19:54 5 Russian spy interest
00:20:23 6 List of US nuclear bunker busters
00:20:57 7 See also



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A nuclear bunker buster, also known as an earth-penetrating weapon (EPW), is the nuclear equivalent of the conventional bunker buster. The non-nuclear component of the weapon is designed to penetrate soil, rock, or concrete to deliver a nuclear warhead to an underground target. These weapons would be used to destroy hardened, underground military bunkers or other below-ground facilities. An underground explosion releases a larger fraction of its energy into the ground, compared to a surface burst or air burst explosion at or above the surface, and so can destroy an underground target using a lower explosive yield. This in turn could lead to a reduced amount of radioactive fallout. However, it is unlikely that the explosion would be completely contained underground. As a result, significant amounts of rock and soil would be rendered radioactive and lofted as dust or vapor into the atmosphere, generating significant fallout.