Editing Variable yield (section)

{{Short description|Option available on many nuclear weapons}}
{{Refimprove|date=September 2009}}

'''Variable yield''', or '''dial-a-yield''', is an option available on most modern [[nuclear weapon]]s. It allows the operator to specify a weapon's [[nuclear weapon yield|yield]], or explosive power, allowing a single design to be used in different situations. For example, the [[B61 nuclear bomb|Mod-10 B61 bomb]] had selectable explosive yields of 0.3, 5, 10 or 80 kilotons, depending on how the ground crew set a dial inside the casing when it was loaded onto an aircraft.