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To: Axenolith

***Which is equal to a rats ass under 60 tons of TNT

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The US Army had (way back in the day) a launcher that fired an atomic round. It was called the Davy Crockett. The round it fired had a yield somewhere between 10 and 20 tons of TNT.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_(nuclear_device)

Warhead equivalents:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W54
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Atomic_Demolition_Munition

(side note)
Wasn’t there a speculation a while back that someone had “given” a few devices to unfriendly folks in the Middle East?


1,009 posted on 05/24/2021 10:48:59 AM PDT by Porkchop
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To: Porkchop

“The US Army had (way back in the day) a launcher that fired an atomic round. It was called the Davy Crockett.”

I believe that the assumption was that you would probably be in the effective blast zone and could figure that you would end up like Davie Crockett at the Alamo.


1,242 posted on 05/24/2021 7:39:40 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission ( )
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