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W58: History & Overview

The W58 was an American thermonuclear warhead used on the Polaris A-3 submarine-launched ballistic missile. Three W58 warheads were fitted as multiple warheads on each Polaris A-3 missile.

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W58 topic overview

The analysis highlights History and Overview as prominent areas in the source structure around W58.

Related topics
18
Source areas
2
Connected nodes
20
Extracted relationships
19
Concept neighborhoods
9
Bridge connections
20

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

History · 12 topics
Overview · 6 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Blast yield
200 kilotonnes of TNT (840 TJ)
Designed
1960 to 1964
Designer
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Diameter
15.6 in (40 cm)
Length
40.3 inches (102 cm)
Mass
257 lb (117 kg)

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

History

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How W58 connects Entity context

The extracted context around W58 shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, W58 → August, Both, In November, January, Polaris, The, The W58, Two Another extracted example is W58 → 200 kilotonnes of TNT (840 TJ). Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

W58

Top relations

related to history · 8
W58 → August, Both, In November, January, Polaris, The, The W58, Two
Blast yield · 1
W58 → 200 kilotonnes of TNT (840 TJ)
Designed · 1
W58 → 1960 to 1964
Designer · 1
W58 → Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Diameter · 1
W58 → 15.6 in (40 cm)
Length · 1
W58 → 40.3 inches (102 cm)
Mass · 1
W58 → 257 lb (117 kg)
No. built · 1
W58 → 1400
Place of origin · 1
W58 → United States
Produced · 1
W58 → March 1964 to June 1967

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

warhead system missile weapon warheads reentry primary would polaris kg fuzing body inches airburst firing three pounds used type nuclear

W58 relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 19 structured relationships around W58. Examples in this analysis include W58 → Blast yield → 200 kilotonnes of TNT (840 TJ) and W58 → Designed → 1960 to 1964. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
W58Blast yield200 kilotonnes of TNT (840 TJ)1.00infobox
W58Designed1960 to 19641.00infobox
W58DesignerLawrence Livermore National Laboratory1.00infobox
W58Diameter15.6 in (40 cm)1.00infobox
W58Length40.3 inches (102 cm)1.00infobox
W58Mass257 lb (117 kg)1.00infobox
W58No. built14001.00infobox
W58Place of originUnited States1.00infobox
W58ProducedMarch 1964 to June 19671.00infobox
W58TypeNuclear weapon1.00infobox
W58Variants21.00infobox
W58related to historyThe W580.60section

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around W58 bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Polaris, Design and Diameter. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • W58
    • Polaris
    • Design
    • Diameter
    • Inches
    • Kg
    • Warheads
    • Missile
    • Kilotonnes
    • Designed
    • Long
    • March
    • Mm
  • w58
    • Polaris
    • Design
    • Diameter
    • Inches
    • Kg
    • Warheads
    • Missile
    • Kilotonnes
    • Designed
    • Long
    • March
    • Mm
  • thermonuclear warhead
    • System
    • Included
    • Weapon
    • March
    • Weighed
    • Body
    • Firing
    • Reentry
    • Nuclear
    • Type
    • Fuzing
    • Warheads
  • cluster warhead
    • System
    • Included
    • Weapon
    • March
    • Weighed
    • Body
    • Firing
    • Reentry
    • Nuclear
    • Type
    • Fuzing
    • Warheads
  • nuclear testing
    • Designed
    • Yield
    • Primary
    • March
    • Used
    • Pounds
    • Type
    • Firing
    • W58
    • Reentry
    • Weapon
    • System
  • polaris a-3
    • W58
    • Missile
    • Design
    • Surfaceburst
    • Used
    • Airburst
    • Three
    • Warheads
    • Would
    • Warhead
  • primary
    • Used
    • Nuclear
    • Designed
    • Body
    • Warheads
    • Reentry
    • System
    • Warhead
  • airburst
    • Surfaceburst
    • Fuzing
    • Would
    • Three
    • Type
    • Polaris
    • System

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For W58, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects W58 with History. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
W58History · splits 8 ⟂ 13
W58Overview · splits 14 ⟂ 7

Map overview Semantic statistics

W58

Nodes21
Edges20
Triples19
Avg. degree1.9
Density0.095238
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around W58 to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History & Overview, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — W58 · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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