Really SMALL Nukes:

Making a bigger nuclear explosion is reasonably simple - much like cooking for more guests - you can quiet simply mix MORE ingredients and do roughly the same cooking until you throw the result smoking at the table.

- Smaller is a different kettle of fish entirely - as when you halve or quarter the nuclear ingredients it may not go critical at all ..

The W54  was one of the smallest nuclear  devices designed by the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory to give a yield starting from only 10 tons .. but they had lots of problems getting them to work reliably. - Like the whole Mutual Assured Destruction theory - making small yielding versions of massively destructive weapons is a durrr concept.

Davy Crockett.

The brains department after many experimental tests settled for the implosion device that was fitted to the Davy Crocket M28-M29 pocket rocket - fired from a smooth bore recoilless spigot rifle and deployed widely in Northern Germany and Korea. - The Davy Crockett had either a range of 2 kilometers or 2.5 kilometers and the 34.5kg warheads had a Hi/Lo switch to increase the yield.

The heroic name of this bazooka reflects the character needed to fire such a self harming tool .. but they only made about 400 of them.

The same warhead was adapted to use as back-pack demolition mines and as an air-to-air AIM-26 Falcon missile - both of which were likely just as dodgy to loose off.

.. Studies in April of 1958 demonstrated that the F-108 aircraft would be able to avoid the nuclear warhead’s deadly radius provided the Falcon launch took place at a range of no less than 20 nautical miles (37 kilometers) 

It's a mans life in today's army eh. 😏

Does this Government history of self destructive defense tactics with WMD add any color to political debates about terminally ill old people being helped to end their own suffering? 

- Either way we do now seem to be starting another nuclear arms race - except now we have THREE big players - with China's military 'progress' - Here is a sample of the US President's wisdom .. Trump told reporters that “We have more money than anybody else by far … We’ll build it up until they come to their senses. When they do, then we’ll all be smart, and we’ll all stop. And by the way not only stop, we’ll reduce, which I would love to do” 
U.S currently plans to spend $1.2 Trillion on nuclear weapons upgrades between 2017-2046.

Marty K.

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