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U.S. Considers Expanded Nuclear Arsenal, a Reversal of Decades of Cuts (www.nytimes.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Just a bomb that is dropped from storage to fall in free-fall. Aka, a bomb with literally nothing else, the simplest possible bomb. An alternative name (which is better imo) is a "Dumb Bomb".

Gravity bomb just sounds so much more extraordinary than it actually is.

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