It's time to bid farewell to the last B53 bomb in America. Disassembly of the country's most powerful remaining nuclear bomb - touted to be six hundred times stronger than the one dropped on Hiroshima - started yesterday at the Pantex Plant near Amarillo, Texas. The B53 that was put into service back in 1962, weights 10,000 pounds and was the size of a minivan. If you're wondering why it was so powerful and huge, it's because back then the size of the bomb had to compensate for its lack of accuracy.
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