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I was reading about the Cold War the other day and they mentioned the Davey Crockett nuke that was a hand held and hand fired nuclear device deployed in Europe.
"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 yield equivalent to somewhere between 10 or 20 tons of TNT— very close to the minimum practical size and yield for a fission warhead."
"Mk-54 (Davy Crockett) — 10 or 20 ton yield, Davy Crockett Gun warhead
Mk-54 (SADM) — variable yield 10 ton to 1 kiloton, Special Atomic Demolition Munition device
W-54 — 250 ton yield, warhead for AIM-26 Falcon air to air missile"
What I'm wondering is the relative sizes of various nuke that we have in our arsenal. As an analogy, if the biggest one we could possibly build was the size of a gymnastics ball, what would the Hiroshima bomb be in comparison? the size of a beach ball? And would the Davey Crockett be the size of a baseball in comparison?
Also, what is the smallest nuke they could make? I seems the Davey Crockett would be the perfect weapon to use against Iran to destroy what they've got and also the psychological impact to Iran and to the rest of the world.
(http://ift.tt/11GL3HT)
I was reading about the Cold War the other day and they mentioned the Davey Crockett nuke that was a hand held and hand fired nuclear device deployed in Europe.
"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 yield equivalent to somewhere between 10 or 20 tons of TNT— very close to the minimum practical size and yield for a fission warhead."
"Mk-54 (Davy Crockett) — 10 or 20 ton yield, Davy Crockett Gun warhead
Mk-54 (SADM) — variable yield 10 ton to 1 kiloton, Special Atomic Demolition Munition device
W-54 — 250 ton yield, warhead for AIM-26 Falcon air to air missile"
What I'm wondering is the relative sizes of various nuke that we have in our arsenal. As an analogy, if the biggest one we could possibly build was the size of a gymnastics ball, what would the Hiroshima bomb be in comparison? the size of a beach ball? And would the Davey Crockett be the size of a baseball in comparison?
Also, what is the smallest nuke they could make? I seems the Davey Crockett would be the perfect weapon to use against Iran to destroy what they've got and also the psychological impact to Iran and to the rest of the world.
(http://ift.tt/11GL3HT)
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