List of Nuclear Weapons - United Kingdom

United Kingdom

Blue Steel Yellow Sun productionised air-delivered Thermonuclear bomb casing.

  • Warheads
    • Blue Danube Tallboy casing with Fission warhead.
    • Red Snow for Yellow Sun Mk.2.
    • Green Grass For Yellow Sun Mk.1.
    • Red Beard, tactical nuclear weapon.
    • WE.177 (also used as a nuclear depth charge).
    • Blue Cat - nuclear warhead a.k.a. Tony - UK version of US W44, a.k.a. Tsetse.
    • Blue Fox - kiloton range nuclear weapon, later renamed Indigo Hammer - not to be confused with the later Blue Fox radar.
    • Blue Peacock ten-kiloton nuclear land mine, a.k.a. the "chicken-powered nuclear bomb", originally 'Blue Bunny' It used the Blue Danube physics package.
    • Blue Rosette - short-case nuclear weapon bomb casing for reconnaissance bomber to spec R156T, including the Avro 730, Handley Page HP.100, English Electric P10, Vickers SP4 and various others.
    • Blue Slug - nuclear ship-to-ship missile using Sea Slug launcher.
    • Blue Water - nuclear tipped surface to surface missile.
    • Green Bamboo - nuclear weapon.
    • Green Cheese - nuclear anti-ship missile.
    • Green Flash - Green Cheese's replacement.
    • Green Granite - nuclear weapons - Green Granite (small) & Green Granite (large).
    • Green Grass - nuclear weapon
    • Indigo Hammer - nuclear weapon
    • Violet Club - nuclear weapon

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