Class-D nuclear warhead

Class-D nuclear warheads are a form of weapon for Galactica or her Viper squadrons.

After news of the Cylon attack on sister ships and the Twelve Colonies of Kobol, Commander William Adama orders a desperate search through Colonial Fleet database records for munitions depots to rearm the battlestar (whose own weapons were destroyed as part of her scheduled decommissioning).

Little else is noted about the weapons, except that Colonel Saul Tigh's records indicate that some are kept at Ragnar Anchorage (Miniseries, Night 1).

Notes

• In the United States military, Class-D is the designation of a relatively light-weight thermonuclear weapon. The W-28 warhead in the B-28 TN bomb is an example of this type.
• Insufficient information exists as to whether these weapons are the same seen later in various forms in the Re-imagined Series. It is probable, but not verifiable, that Pegasus gave some of these weapons (if any were available) to the older battlestar.
• Viewers would later see different kinds of nuclear ordnance in the series.

1. The first was in the form of a Cylon Raider kiloton nuclear missile that strikes Galactica (Miniseries, Night 1).
2. A second was the form of one warhead given to Gaius Baltar for his Cylon detector (Bastille Day), which is later given to Gina and her Demand Peace movement. Later, in her depression, Gina detonates the warhead, destroying Cloud Nine and several other civilian Fleet ships (Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II).
3. The third instance has Galactica herself deploying and arming (but never firing) several nuclear missiles in a standoff against a Cylon expedition to the algae planet and the Temple of Five (The Eye of Jupiter).