The United States will dismantle the last of its Cold War-era B53 nuclear bombs, the most destructive weapon in the country’s arsenal, the National Nuclear Safety Administration said Monday. The 10,000-pound bomb was designed to be dropped from a B-52 bomber and can produce an explosion 600 times more powerful than the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945.
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