https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_(nuclear_devic...
When I told my dad (who grew up in the Cold War) about the weapon, he said "Oh yeah, I had the toy model version."
I'm often astonished any civilizations survived the Cold War.
They also made backpack nukes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suitcase_nuclear_device
The USA also has chemical weapons stockpiles that haven't been fully destroyed to this day. The Honest John rocket could be fitted with sarin warheads:
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Demonstration_clus...
It had a 3-digit arming code, set by turning three rotary switches with a screwdriver. "Code must be correct or weapon will dud", says the comic-book training manual.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS,_The_Preventive_Maintenance... [2] https://www.logsa.army.mil/#/psmag
And we're working on destroying the chemical weapons. It's just tricky. Some of the chemical weapons were corrosive, which makes them difficult to move.
> The base would be defended against Soviet overland attack by man-fired weapons:
> Unguided Davy Crockett rockets with low-yield nuclear warheads > Conventional Claymore mines modified to puncture pressure suits
The cold war does make me wonder about quantum immortality. Maybe consciousness just happens to exist here in a timeline where consciousness still exists.
>Howze is credited with starting the convention of naming US Army helicopter types after Native American tribes, because he found the names suggested by the manufacturers too insipid. The Bell H-13, which had already been in service for some years, was renamed "Sioux" at his suggestion and the tradition continues to the present day.
Actually quite a modest bang by nuclear standards.