TheTN 60 was a French firstthermonuclear weapon.

The 1 megaton TN-60 missile warhead entered service in mid 1976 as an interim warhead for the MSBSM20 SLBM. The TN-60 was the first French warhead "hardened" to penetrate the Russian ABM defenses around Moscow. The TN-60 was replaced with theTN-61 starting in 1980.

This warhead only used by 16M20 SLBM aboard L'indomptable SSBN in mid 1976(the fourth boat from Le redoutable class nuclear powered ballistic missile submarine).

The TN-60 warhead tested twice since 3 July 1970 and 14 August 1971 with equivalent of 1 megaton in mururoa attol.

TN-60 warhead also French first thermonuclear warhead developed domestically without foreign assistance.derived from canopus thermonuclear warhead design but its primary stage using plutonium instead uranium-235 and boosted with Deutrium+Tritium to reduce the weight.

TN-60 warhead design almost similiar performance to United States W-28/MK-28 bomb.

• Norris, Robert, Burrows, Andrew, Fieldhouse, Richard "Nuclear Weapons Databook, Volume V, British, French and Chinese Nuclear Weapons, San Francisco, Westview Press, 1994,ISBN 0-8133-1612-X

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