Much misinformation has been published by those who support as well as those who are against the continued deployment of nuclear weapons as instruments of deterrence This book provides an apolitical description of nuclear weapons how they are designed how they work & how they are assigned to different targets in the event of conflict The underpinning purpose of the book is to provide a descriptive manual on what they are how they are categorized how they would be sent to their targets & how they have changed as revealed through their design & potential application As well as a Workshop Manual this book would be a guide to public understanding expressed in a dispassionate & factual manner for information which many people find hard or impossible to obtain Nuclear weapons do exist & they cannot be wished away & because of that an entirely fact-based & balanced account is helpful to those who seek to understand this emotively sensitive subject delivered as a seminal reference This book incorporates a balance of cutaway diagrams images of hardware & test equipment facilities & delivery systems & traces the evolution of nuclear weapons over the past 70 years Much misinformation has been published by those who support as well as those who are against the continued deployment of nuclear weapons as instruments of deterrence Prepare for an apolitical description of nuclear weapons how they are designed how they work & how they are assigned to different targets in the event of conflict