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How do you disarm nuclear weapon?

Updated: 9/19/2023
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That would really depend on the design of the weapon:

  • Early US bombs were armed and disarmed by manually inserting and removing the fissile core.
  • Some later US bombs were armed by manually or automatically pulling a chain or wire out of the fissile core, they could not be disarmed.
  • Modern US bombs and warheads are armed with a cryptographic code entered into the PAL, I am not sure about disarming but suspect the PAL handles it too.
  • Other countries may use entirely different systems or none at all.

There is usually also an entirely separate system for arming and disarming the chemical explosives component.

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