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

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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 ...

"Davy Crockett’s Alamo story faces historical scrutiny in this deep dive into the past. Rated Red is your go-to channel for everything Heartland! From epic food and cars to military life ...

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.

Humphy Davy is one of the most renowned chemists of all time. A pioneer in using electricity to drive chemical reactions, he – for the first time – isolated the elements potassium, sodium, calcium, ...

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 ...

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 ...