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the obvious capacity for city-destruction as demonstrated in the 1945 nuclear attacks against Hiroshima and Nagasaki, early American planners identified nuclear weapons as a potential way to balance the conventional numerical advantage of the Soviet Union. The first mass-produced nuclear weapon specifically built for tactical applications was the Mark-4 gravity bomb, introduced in 1949 and featuring yield options from 1 to 31 kilotons.

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