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The National Museum of the US Air Force in Dayton, OH also has a B53 casing at the entrance of their Cold War exhibit. I think the sign for it just says rather
by Jeema101 5y ago
The National Museum of the US Air Force in Dayton, OH also has a B53 casing at the entrance of their Cold War exhibit.
I think the sign for it just says rather bluntly "B53 Thermonuclear Bomb", which I always found kind of funny in a dark Dr-Strangelove-esque kind of way.
https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/195680/b53-thermonuclear-bomb/ https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/Fact...
Edit: The one right near the entrance is actually a B41. The B53 is somewhere else in the exhibit (apparently they have multiple H-bomb casings).
- TimMeade 5y agoI remember going to the USAF Museum in Dayton when i got out of the air force. One of the last things i worked on was the new AGM-129 cruise missile that we could "neither confirm nor deny" it existed. I went to the museum and they had one on display. Blew my mind as i thought the shape was classified.
- TimMeade 5y agoYears ago they had the B-53 and other bombs under the B-36 bay. But they have moved the plane since then.