The smallest nuke available (W80) is about 300lbs and 31.4 by 11.8 inches. It’s more like a footlocker than a suitcase.
And what is the nominal yield of such a device? How many KT or fractions thereof?
The smallest nuke available (W80) is about 300lbs and 31.4 by 11.8 inches. It’s more like a footlocker than a suitcase.
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The Davy Crockett is a Nuke Warhead designed to be shot from a recoiless rifle and was developed in the late 1950s
The M-388 round used a version of the W54 warhead, a very small sub-kiloton fission device. The Mk-54 weighed about 51 lb (23 kg), with a selectable yield equivalent to 10 or 20 tons of TNT (very close to the minimum practical size and yield for a fission warhead). A total of 2,100 being made.
THAT was more than half a century ago. A decade before putting a man on the moon. Before Personal Computers, before Microwaves and Cellphones. The size of a nuke now is so small you can fit one anywhere.
51 pounds in the 1950s = x in 2011