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| [[File:TRS - Flesh and Bone - Sharon Valerii and Gaius Baltar in Lab.jpg|thumb|{{Callsign|Boomer}} and [[Gaius Baltar]] in his [[medlab]], with a disassembled warhead appropriated for the [[Cylon detector]] {{TRS|Flesh and Bone}}.]]
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| '''Class-D nuclear warheads''' are a type of nuclear weapon used by [[battlestar]]s and their [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] squadrons.
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| After news of the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]] on the [[Twelve Colonies of Kobol|Twelve Colonies]] and the [[Colonial Fleet (TRS)|Colonial Fleet]], Commander [[William Adama|Adama]] orders a desperate search through Fleet database records for munitions depots to rearm ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' as its own munitions had been [[List of Deleted Scenes (RDM)#Miniseries|destroyed as part of her scheduled decommissioning]].
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| Little else is noted about the weapons, except that Colonel [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]]'s records indicate that 50 pallets of these warheads are kept at [[Ragnar Anchorage]] along with [[missile tubes|missiles]] and [[small arms]] ammunition {{TRS|Miniseries, Night 1}}.
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| == Use of Colonial nuclear weapons ==
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| Insufficient information exists as to whether the other nuclear warheads seen through the series are also Class-D or of some other type. It is probable, but not verifiable, that ''[[Pegasus (TRS)|Pegasus]]'' gave some of these weapons to ''Galactica'', when the two battlestars pooled their resources.
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| *One warhead is given to [[Gaius Baltar]] for his [[Cylon detector]] {{TRS|Bastille Day}}, which he later hands over to [[Gina Inviere]] and the [[Demand Peace]] movement. In her depression, Inviere detonates the warhead, destroying ''[[Cloud 9]]'' and several other civilian ships {{TRS|Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II}}.
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| *''Galactica'' herself readies and arms several nuclear missiles in a standoff against a Cylon expedition to the [[algae planet]] and the [[Temple of Five]] {{TRS|The Eye of Jupiter}}.
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| *A strike team from ''Pegasus'' takes a nuclear warhead to the [[Guardian basestar]] and subsequently destroys it {{TRS|Razor}}.
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| ==Notes==
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| * In the United States military, Class-D is the designation of a relatively light-weight thermonuclear weapon. The W-28 warhead in the [[w:B28 nuclear bomb|B-28 TN bomb]] is an example of this type.
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