To: Myrddin
How did those work? I hadn’t heard of them before.
I’m interested in the firing range, the detonation radius, and the relative safety of the service member who fired them off.
194 posted on
08/23/2015 8:11:15 PM PDT by
DoughtyOne
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To: DoughtyOne
I was a well paid suicide assignment. Unlikely to ever have to push the button. My father mentioned it to me post 2000. He was in a position to know.
208 posted on
08/24/2015 12:48:52 PM PDT by
Myrddin
To: DoughtyOne
How did those work? I hadnt heard of them before. Im interested in the firing range, the detonation radius, and the relative safety of the service member who fired them off.
Yield was adjustable up to about 1 KT. Special operations teams were trained for this. The teams were probably a write-off, since they were instructed to stay close and make sure that the gadget wasn't tampered with and did in fact go off as expected. Then they'd be really deep in hostile territory and on everybody bad's s**t list.
Good article here:
http://foreignpolicy.com/2014/01/30/the-littlest-boy/
216 posted on
08/25/2015 4:38:36 PM PDT by
Riley
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