W85 (nuclear warhead)

	A DOE drawing of the W85 warhead.
Type	Nuclear weapon
Place of origin	United States
Production history
Designer	Los Alamos National Laboratory
No. built	215
Specifications
Mass	Less than 591 pounds (268 kg)
Blast yield	0.3, 5, 10 or 80 kt.

The W85 was a thermonuclear warhead developed by the United States of America to arm the Pershing II missile. It was a variable yield device with a selectable yield of 0.3, 5, 10 or 80 kilotonnes of TNT (1, 21, 42 or 335 TJ).^[2]^[3]

^ Pershing II Weapon System TM 9-1425-386-10-1 (PDF). United States Army. June 1986. p. 5-1. Archived from the original on 6 August 2020.
^ "The B61 Bomb". www.nuclearweaponarchive.org. Retrieved 2018-10-16.
^ "List of All U.S. Nuclear Weapons". www.nuclearweaponarchive.org. Retrieved 2018-10-16.

[Pershing_manual-1] Pershing II Weapon System TM 9-1425-386-10-1 (PDF). United States Army. June 1986. p. 5-1. Archived from the original on 6 August 2020.

[2] "The B61 Bomb". www.nuclearweaponarchive.org. Retrieved 2018-10-16.

[3] "List of All U.S. Nuclear Weapons". www.nuclearweaponarchive.org. Retrieved 2018-10-16.

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