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

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Davy Crockett’s legacy became even more prevalent during the early and mid 20th century. One example of this was an invention from the Cold War. The U.S. Army invented a nuclear weapons system called ...

When my boy Coleman was four, he asked for — and got — a Davy Crockett jacket and a coonskin cap for Christmas. Back when Disney celebrated bad asses instead of fruitcakes, he had watched a ...

The tactical nuclear weapons display shows just how small atomic devices could be. You’ll see the Davy Crockett XM-388 projectile that infantry soldiers could fire from a special gun, creating ...

“Aside from polio and nuclear war,” he allows that “elementary school ... throw things, and pretend to be Davy Crockett.” Barry has a low-key way of surfacing simple truths. While the “pedagogy of the ...

Lost Camp of Andrew Jackson and Davy Crockett - Metal Detecting Part 2 . What metal detecting finds will be dug this week? In this series, we are on the search for the lost camps of Andrew Jackson ...

Nuclear-armed tank sketch comparison: on the left is the T-64 with Rezeda, and on the right is American T95 medium tank adapted to fire Davy Crockett atomic projectiles / Image credit: btvt.info via ...

Davy Crockett and Jimmy Hoffa both had plenty of attitude. As Hoffa put it, “I may have my faults, but being wrong ain’t one of them.” As for Crockett, he was a thriving politician.

Rick Landgraf talks with Andrew Forney, author of “Davy Crockett and the Boy Scouts: The Korean War and Mismanaging Protracted Conflict,” featured in Volume 8, Issue 1 of the Texas National Security ...

Even so, this was large compared with the US army’s notorious nuclear-armed Davy Crockett recoilless rifle, whose range of just 1.25 miles (2 kilometres) meant it was commonly reckoned to be as ...

Could you compare several Oreshniks hitting the same spot to a nuclear blast? Well, the W54 warhead (‘atomic watermelon’) developed for the Jeep-mounted Davy Crockett Nuclear Weapon System in ...