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  • There are 4 inch nuclear howitzer shells
  • The Davy Crocket dial-a-yield tactical Jeep transported warhead was a 12 inch sphere
  • Typical modern ICBM fusion warheads are cones about 6 inch diameter base and 18 inch tall (I've seen speculative sketches on these that estimate the fission trigger is roughly a sphere 2.5 inches in diameter)
  • nuclear depth charges are the same size as conventional ones
  • nuclear torpedos are the same size as conventional ones
  • The first US nuclear artillery shell was 280mm (11 inch)
  • The first US deliverable fusion bomb was 6 feet in diameter and about 15 feet long (MK-17) and would only fit in the B-36 bomber
  • The first US fusion device (test Ivy Mike) was a steel cylinder 20 feet in diameter and 80 feet tall with 2 foot thick walls
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