In the 1950s the military tried several new atomic weapons, including firing a nuclear warhead from a 280mm artillery piece.

the world's smallest nuclear rocket. The M-28/29 "Davy Crockett," and this massively tiny explosion (at around 3:35, if the video doesn't load properly), was the result. The miniature nuke came ...

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The diminutive Davy Crockett was the smallest, weighing just over 50 pounds. The Washington, D.C.-based Brookings Institute said the nuclear warhead that could be launched by the Davy Crockett was ...

The website, created by Alex Wellerstein, a historian who specializes in the history of nuclear weapons and secrecy, lets users pick a city and a type of weapon, ranging from the "Davy Crockett ...

Curator Dwight Blocker Bowers shares the story of Davy Crockett's coonskin cap, now on view in Starring North Carolina! at the North Carolina Museum of History, a Smithsonian Affiliate museum. Made of ...