Editing Bunker buster (section)

==Nuclear==
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The [[nuclear bunker buster]] is the [[nuclear weapon]] version of the bunker buster. The non-nuclear component of the weapon is designed to greatly enhance the penetration into [[soil]], [[Rock (geology)|rock]], or [[concrete]] to deliver a nuclear warhead to a target. These weapons would be used to destroy hardened, underground [[military]] [[bunker]]s deeply buried. In theory, the amount of [[radioactive]] [[nuclear fallout]] would be reduced from that of a standard, air-burst nuclear detonation because they would have relatively low [[nuclear weapon yield|explosive yield]]. However, because such weapons necessarily come into contact with large amounts of earth-based debris, they may, under certain circumstances, still generate significant fallout. [[Warhead]] yield and weapon design have changed periodically throughout the history of the design of such weapons. An underground explosion releases a larger fraction of its energy into the ground, compared to an explosion at or above the surface which releases most of its energy into the atmosphere.