Variable yield

Variable yield, or dial-a-yield, is an option available on most modern nuclear weapons. It allows the operator to specify a weapon's yield, or explosive power, allowing a single design to be used in different situations. For example, the 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.

In other non-nuclear contexts, Variable Yield refers to the difference in revenues realized from the sale of metal versus the leasing of metal under the Metals as a Service concept developed by Aniruddha Jaydeokar, a researcher at the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment.

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