***Well recall Nixon was planning on nuking the dikes ***
Don’t laugh. I worked with a man who was in the rangers, and once he told of the pressures on him during the war.
All he would say was...
“What if you were carrying a portable nuclear bomb on your back behind enemy lines, and knew YOU might be the person who starts a nuclear war.” The he shut up and said no more.
I have seen a Nuclear ‘Man Pack’. They are about the size of a small diameter cylinder shaped trashcan coming up to under an average man’s waist. The one I saw was probably a dummy practice unit outfitted to be jumped strapped to the front of a parachutist under the reserve chute... The guy waddled like a duck to get to the door before he jumped ... I went out the other side door near the same time... We were told to keep our mouths shut... and not talk about what we saw... From what I was told the device had a long delay timer on it for the guy who placed it to walk out (a long way :) ).