M388 Davy Crockett Operational Test

One of the smallest nuclear weapons ever built, the Davy Crockett was developed in the late 1950s for use against Soviet troops had war broken out in Europe. Small teams of the Atomic Battle Group (charged with operating the device) would be stationed every few kilometers to guard against Soviet attack, using the power of their nuclear artillery to kill or incapacitate advancing troop formations and irradiate the area so that it was uninhabitable for up to 48 hours, long enough to mobilize NATO forces.

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[David Gerrard]

Equivalent to 10-20 tons of TNT, so it could easily demolish a large building.

[DavidB1001]

Actually, the lethal dose of radiation, at 10,000 rems was for the first 500 feet.

1/4 of a mile could kill you, but you could technically survive because it was only a probably fatal dose, 600 rem, within a quarter mile..:)

There was a survivor of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which both had more radiation spread and ranges, and he died in January of this year. :)

[Kat Tsun]

I can think of one conventional bomb that has more power. One. A single M-388 round was the equivalent of several salvos of artillery fire from a 155mm gun battery. \:

[Kat Tsun]

>Impending

>In reality won't happen for like 20 years

[Stephen Bachman]

Poor soliders just lambs to the impending cancer I hope it was worth it.

[Lord Dartz]

How many of those could be placed in a backpack or launched by a cannon?

[lasourisaboyante]

Thanks for letting everyone who reads your comment know just how stupid you are.

[suemorphplus2009]

Well, now I know where they got the idea of The Fat Man in Fallout 3.

[busyman05]

It has a blast equivalent to a MOAB.

Don't tell me the biggest non-nuclear bomb is weak.

[Anonymou5Hacker]

and this is why north korea will bite the pillow in nuclear war, lol

[FriedrichHecker1848]

I always thought that the guys from Fallout are completly crazy with their Fatman-Nuclear Catapult, finally I see you americans are totally crazy, you really invented that stuff!

[HapTrap99]

lol use it to blow up walmart