dtb said:

>>The Mk-6 was the most terrible weapon ever created by the United States.
>>Inside the Mk-6 was the W-53 thermonuclear warhead which weighed 8850 lb.
>>and had a yield of 9 megatons. Supposably the Soviets had operational
>>warheads even bigger than the W-53, which is pretty hard to believe.
>
>I'm afraid even we deployed some larger weapons. Most notably, the B41
>bomb carried by B-52 aircraft, which supposedly had a yield around 20 to 25Mt.

dtb is correct. The W-53 was the most powerful missle warhead. The B-41 which was a bomb, had more destructive power than the W-53.

Gary