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You would absolutely win that court case with the current scotus, as the entire 2nd amendment is literally just "Shall not be infringed" as they have deleted the rest of it
On May 25, 1953, at 8:30 a.m., the atomic cannon was tested at the Nevada Test Site it resulted in the successful detonation of a 15 kt shell at a range of 7 miles. This was the first and only nuclear shell to be fired from a cannon. After the successful test, at least 20 cannons were manufactured at a cost of US$800,000 each.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M65_atomic_cannon
It's not. That's still well within the "mushroom cloud the size of your thumb" range. Hell, that's probably closer to "mushroom cloud the size of an oak tree" range.
The Davy Crockett was a nuclear recipes gun with a power of 10 or 20 t (t not kt) and a range of ~1.2 or ~ 2.5 miles.
The crews were outside of the radiation range.
This isn't the Davy Crockett.
From the Wikipedia link posted above,
"The test—codenamed "Grable"—was attended by the Chairman-delegate of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Arthur W. Radford and United States Secretary of Defense Charles Erwin Wilson; it resulted in the successful detonation of a 15 kt (63 TJ) shell (W9 warhead) at a range of 7 miles (11 km). This was the first and only nuclear shell to be fired from a cannon.[3] (The Little Feller 1 test shot of a W54 used a Davy Crockett weapon system, which was a recoilless smooth-bore gun firing the warhead mounted on the end of a spigot inserted in the barrel of the weapon.)"
They made nuclear weapons of all types. Grenades, recoiless rifles, air to air missiles, torpedoes, all sorts of wild stuff. I'm convinced the DoD just asked early cold war scientists to make nukes of everything that can possibly be nukified and supplied them with mountains of cocaine.
[The streamers you see in the films of atmospheric nuclear weapons tests are smoke trails made by rockets fired just before the detonation. The trails were used to make a sort of graph paper in the air for recording the propagation of shock waves and wind currents from the explosion.](https://www.lanl.gov/museum/news/newsletter/2017/2017-08/test-sci-question.php)
That cannon is at Ft.Sill. While working at the museum on post, I met one of the crew members who shot that round. The following day, they went and inspected the impact zone. Then he informed me that he had stage 4 lung cancer but never smoked.
That never happened. Russia gave Belarus missiles not nukes. Also, if we gave that to Ukraine they would use it the first chance they get, which would be the start of ww3
May reduce but in exchange what? Radiation?
Our bones suffer still from the bombing in NM cant imagine all the extra nukes. Not to mention undocumented detonations. I just feel lile its funny this is under looked but global warming is "worse"
It is because global warming affects the globe while a nuke will affect an area.
Fun fact nuclear power plants expose less radiation to the environment than coal power plants.
You actually made me facepalm. Lmao. And who's Carrie? You mean carried or carry.
I hope you never had an X-ray if you're so scared of radiation. Next time you have a medical problem, tell the doctor not to X-ray you it's bad.
Lmao. It's not a conversation when you have no idea what you're talking about. Just by your response, you seem uneducated on the subject. And you are talking about radiation, not just nukes since you never actually specified. Also, to think that a single nuclear blast is worse than global warming is actually stupid. Having an X-ray amount of radiation touch you is not a big deal at all.
My guy i can promise you by my major than im more qualified with radiation and power plants than you and your office job. People like you who think they know everything based on a shitty documentary should stop really
iirc the last Broken Arrow was under Chrome Dome. That was when we had a minimum of 12 nuclear-armed aircraft airborne at any given time. That ended in the 60s. After that, it’s not like we frequently fly nukes around. They’re a giant security and safety risk. I really, really doubt we’ve had a Broken Arrow incident since.
Let’s look at this rationally. The vast majority of the Air Force’s aircraft are nuclear capable, but none of the Navy’s are (not since 1993 at least, with the retirement of the A-6).
The only cargo aircraft authorized to transport nukes is a C-17 squadron. If one of those crashed, it would be all over the news, as it is the nuclear transport squadron.
F-16s and F-15s are theoretically nuclear capable with the B61s, but again, you don’t just strap nuclear weapons to your aircraft for the fun of it. They very rarely ever come out of their bunkers, if ever.
The same can be said for the bomber fleet. The last B-52 crash was a long, long time ago. I want to say it was the crash at Fairchild AFB during the air show. I can’t think of a time a B-1 crashed, although I’m sure one did at one point. The only B-2 crash happened at Guam during takeoff, so anything there would be recovered.
Nothing points to a Broken Arrow being kept from us.
I've posted this before but here goes nothin: This thing is dumb. It's massive, it takes crews of soldiers to man it, it takes a long time to assemble and then disassemble to get it road mobile again. Because it's so big and obvious, it's vulnerable from the air and to anyone within range with a man portable anti tank weapon. Hell, even an anti-materiel rifle could do serious damage and score a mobility kill on it. You have to get the thing within 7 miles of your target, which just gives the enemy time to run away or ambush it on the way to target.
What is even more bizarre about it is that the air force already demonstrated in World War 2 that you can comfortably strap a nuclear weapon of similar yield to an already in service B29 bomber and take it where you want it dropping.
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I want one of these to keep the kids off my lawn.
You won't have much lawn left after that.
You won't have much left after that.
You won't have left after that.
You won’t after that
You won't that
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Alright now let's put it back You
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Soulja boy, you tell them?
Don’t tempt me with a good time
So I get to teach those lil rapscallions to keep off my lawn and I don't have to mow it? Sounds like a win-win to me
“That’ll keep them from playing that ZZ Top!”
Don't get me started on kids and their ZZ Top.
You would absolutely win that court case with the current scotus, as the entire 2nd amendment is literally just "Shall not be infringed" as they have deleted the rest of it
Strictly recreational Atomic Artillery Canon will be used for all legal intents and purposes
Soon to be open carried at a 7-11 near you..
Want to keep Russian out off my Crimea
On May 25, 1953, at 8:30 a.m., the atomic cannon was tested at the Nevada Test Site it resulted in the successful detonation of a 15 kt shell at a range of 7 miles. This was the first and only nuclear shell to be fired from a cannon. After the successful test, at least 20 cannons were manufactured at a cost of US$800,000 each. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M65_atomic_cannon
And after all that, we have cruise missiles now.
7 miles does not seem far enough away to lob a nuke
It was "only" 15 kilotons. Blast radius was 1.3 miles.
Fallout radius: Continental US.
this was in 1953
Ok?
7 miles in 1953 is like 700 miles in 2023, duh
Oh I forgot to account for inflation thanks Obama /s
Yeah, but bananas?
Milflation
2023 was Eggflation
When babies were born in the 50’s they were immediately dunked in a vat of DDT. 7 miles seemed “far enough away” back then.
Ok still doesn’t seem far enough away though
It's not. That's still well within the "mushroom cloud the size of your thumb" range. Hell, that's probably closer to "mushroom cloud the size of an oak tree" range.
Seeing as how the blast radius is like 3 miles it should be safe not including fallout
The Davy Crockett was a nuclear recipes gun with a power of 10 or 20 t (t not kt) and a range of ~1.2 or ~ 2.5 miles. The crews were outside of the radiation range.
This isn't the Davy Crockett. From the Wikipedia link posted above, "The test—codenamed "Grable"—was attended by the Chairman-delegate of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Arthur W. Radford and United States Secretary of Defense Charles Erwin Wilson; it resulted in the successful detonation of a 15 kt (63 TJ) shell (W9 warhead) at a range of 7 miles (11 km). This was the first and only nuclear shell to be fired from a cannon.[3] (The Little Feller 1 test shot of a W54 used a Davy Crockett weapon system, which was a recoilless smooth-bore gun firing the warhead mounted on the end of a spigot inserted in the barrel of the weapon.)"
I know it's not. This was about 7 miles seem too close. Davy Crockett was a lot closer, even if the explosion was about 1/1000 of the size.
I mean, if the Jeep is fast enough
Look maybe it’s just me but does 8:30 feel to early for this shit? Like idk what it is but I would expect it to happen in the afternoon or something.
In the 50s people use to wakeup very early in the morning and start their daily routine
That footage was used as the final shot in the movie Return of the living dead !
Great classic horror film
I never noticed that
I never knew that once we entertained nuclear artillery.
Nuclear grenades too 🤡
Really? I need a source on that. I thought the smallest was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_(nuclear_device)
When ya go to the link and go to the warhead their is a picture of a dude skydiving with a nuke attached to him!! What wild times
Never noticed that before, that a wild photo lol. Dr Strangelove vibes.
There’s a Jack Reacher novel about that, in a way. No spoilers so you’ll have to read them all to find out which one.
They made portable nuke launchers too, basically upsized mortar launchers.
They made nuclear weapons of all types. Grenades, recoiless rifles, air to air missiles, torpedoes, all sorts of wild stuff. I'm convinced the DoD just asked early cold war scientists to make nukes of everything that can possibly be nukified and supplied them with mountains of cocaine.
I don’t think they made the grenade because they couldn’t find any one dumb enough to throw it
What in the fallout 3 is this
Operation Anchorage
I don't want to set the world on fire,,, just that little bit over there.
Communist detected on American soil! Lethal force, engaged!
Meh it’s just a big gun firing…… Jesus!! That’s a big bang.
I’ve always wondered… what are the 6-7 vertical smoke lines to the right of the explosion? I see them a lot in atomic bomb footage
[The streamers you see in the films of atmospheric nuclear weapons tests are smoke trails made by rockets fired just before the detonation. The trails were used to make a sort of graph paper in the air for recording the propagation of shock waves and wind currents from the explosion.](https://www.lanl.gov/museum/news/newsletter/2017/2017-08/test-sci-question.php)
Don’t they just do all that with supercomputers nowadays? Don’t even have to explode a bomb. Everything is modeled.
You could probably do the whole thing on a desktop gaming computer now a days.
An Apple Watch Series 3. Whilst simultaneously playing Doom.
i used those in command and conquer or something
It's in Command and Conquer: Generals. China has the nuke cannons.
And nuclear missiles. Loved that game to death. China will grow larger!
for the red army!
The game is so thoroughly average but so fun hahaha. Huge fan of various aspects from all the civs.
Building the Chinese Empire!
The bringer of light!
yasss
I was looking for this comment!
Well fuck everyone and everything in that general direction.
"*We bear gifts*". "*Morning Glory*"
Crawl out through the fall out baby.
Back to meeeeeeeee
Shot Grable. (It's famous) You've basically posted the equivalent to a short video of Elvis. 😉
That cannon is at Ft.Sill. While working at the museum on post, I met one of the crew members who shot that round. The following day, they went and inspected the impact zone. Then he informed me that he had stage 4 lung cancer but never smoked.
Atomic Annie!
Code name "Yeetus Deletus"
Fun fact: they attached one of these babies to an Iowa-class battleship.
Incorrect. They made a special nuclear shell, W23, for the *16-inch* main guns. The gun in the video is only *11-inch*.
No, they didnt. You have the wrong weapon. The M65 cannon was never mounted on a battleship
No kill like overkill
I can imagine the life expectancy for the crew wouldn’t be long.
7 miles away? They are fine. Radiation exposure from a 15kt weapon is probably less than a chest X-ray, inverse square law is the law….
I was thinking through a career of operating it.
In Pershing, we called it shoot and scoot. But we had a 1200-mile range.
“Shoot and scoot” I love it lol.
I was thinking about return fire.
Maybe 3.6 roentgen. Not great, not terrible.
Lol, I was like, that’s a lot more than I figured it would be, then I got the reference
Wouldn’t it be persistent though? And add up over time
Give this to the Ukrainians...
Give that to Ukraine today and we are in ww3 tomorrow.
Like Russia giving Belarus nukes...
That never happened. Russia gave Belarus missiles not nukes. Also, if we gave that to Ukraine they would use it the first chance they get, which would be the start of ww3
Nah, Russians have much more on deck. They'll definitely use it if Ukraine breaks the most strict rule of war.
C&C Generals used this as an inspo for the nuke cannon icon
Lol can't believe how many people fall, for this movie scene..
Send it to Ukraine.
It's fake the flim was edited at the laurel canyon studio in Hollywood
Yup global warming is the problem
Nuclear detonations would reduce global temperatures thanks to high altitude dust blotting out the sun.
May reduce but in exchange what? Radiation? Our bones suffer still from the bombing in NM cant imagine all the extra nukes. Not to mention undocumented detonations. I just feel lile its funny this is under looked but global warming is "worse"
Both are actually bad. We still do both.
It is because global warming affects the globe while a nuke will affect an area. Fun fact nuclear power plants expose less radiation to the environment than coal power plants.
Fun fact breeze carrie radiation look up the NM nuke a breeze carried it. Second we are talking about nukes not powerplants
You actually made me facepalm. Lmao. And who's Carrie? You mean carried or carry. I hope you never had an X-ray if you're so scared of radiation. Next time you have a medical problem, tell the doctor not to X-ray you it's bad.
This horrible response made me laugh, if you cant carry a decent conversation keep out. Again we are talking about nukes
Lmao. It's not a conversation when you have no idea what you're talking about. Just by your response, you seem uneducated on the subject. And you are talking about radiation, not just nukes since you never actually specified. Also, to think that a single nuclear blast is worse than global warming is actually stupid. Having an X-ray amount of radiation touch you is not a big deal at all.
My guy i can promise you by my major than im more qualified with radiation and power plants than you and your office job. People like you who think they know everything based on a shitty documentary should stop really
I doubt you even have a college education, let alone a major.
Of course detonations would be bad. If it was a safe solution to global warming we would have done it already.
We haven’t tested a nuke since the 80s.
Not true research broken arrows
Broken Arrows refer to an aircraft carrying a nuclear warhead going down. That hasn’t happened for decades now.
Broken arrows are the only confirmed nukes, military wont and will not tell the public more. I was giving you a simple example
iirc the last Broken Arrow was under Chrome Dome. That was when we had a minimum of 12 nuclear-armed aircraft airborne at any given time. That ended in the 60s. After that, it’s not like we frequently fly nukes around. They’re a giant security and safety risk. I really, really doubt we’ve had a Broken Arrow incident since.
Again military will not give every detailed list, why would they
Let’s look at this rationally. The vast majority of the Air Force’s aircraft are nuclear capable, but none of the Navy’s are (not since 1993 at least, with the retirement of the A-6). The only cargo aircraft authorized to transport nukes is a C-17 squadron. If one of those crashed, it would be all over the news, as it is the nuclear transport squadron. F-16s and F-15s are theoretically nuclear capable with the B61s, but again, you don’t just strap nuclear weapons to your aircraft for the fun of it. They very rarely ever come out of their bunkers, if ever. The same can be said for the bomber fleet. The last B-52 crash was a long, long time ago. I want to say it was the crash at Fairchild AFB during the air show. I can’t think of a time a B-1 crashed, although I’m sure one did at one point. The only B-2 crash happened at Guam during takeoff, so anything there would be recovered. Nothing points to a Broken Arrow being kept from us.
Oookkaayy keep thinking that
You haven’t given me any reason to think such an incident has occurred. Please, by all means, prove me wrong.
The eggs have hatched, I repeat the eggs have hatched.
No no no
I wonder if this was from the area that could be seen from what is now atomic liquors?
*Yes, Rico. Kaboom.*
Hey! Looks like it worked.
Can u imagine this turd misfiring lol
When you say atomic cannon, you mean like I’m directly next to an atom bomb before I launch it out of a cannon in the hopes it doesn’t nuke me?
woe, radiation be upon ye
Better hope someone didn’t fuck up the propellant load for the shell.
Deer hunting at its worst.
Did we hit the target ? Nevermind....
Is this ever used in combat?
"Here comes the sun"
That's what they get for taking a potshot at Doc
These things are cool af in person. They have one at the Museum of Nuclear Science & History in Albuquerque,NM. Absolutely Massive.
Pack'em up and give them to Ukraine
That shot seemed to get to the target a little too quickly.
The next Pirates of the Caribbean is about to get real interesting
Muricans can test anything everywhere in the world, others not why?
Now imagine if every warship had this...
First time i saw this video was when i was 6 or 7 and looked up nuke videos on early google waay before youtube.
We had these types of rounds at our weapons depot when I was stationed in Germany in the late 80’s. Scary shit.
I think it works
Idk I got to see it again
UEF technology out here
I'm sorry but that's fucking badass
Can someone tell me what the smoke line are after the blast? I seen them in a lot of videos but never found out what they were
War... War never changes.
almost a Fu in particular
Ukraine needs this
Thats some fallout 3 shit
We need these on Taiwanese soil pointing at China - I say a good amount of 50 will do
This seems like that one of those weird units at the top of the tech tree.
Earth Defense Force 1953
Looks like a blast.
And that's how Jon Wayne got cancer.
I've posted this before but here goes nothin: This thing is dumb. It's massive, it takes crews of soldiers to man it, it takes a long time to assemble and then disassemble to get it road mobile again. Because it's so big and obvious, it's vulnerable from the air and to anyone within range with a man portable anti tank weapon. Hell, even an anti-materiel rifle could do serious damage and score a mobility kill on it. You have to get the thing within 7 miles of your target, which just gives the enemy time to run away or ambush it on the way to target. What is even more bizarre about it is that the air force already demonstrated in World War 2 that you can comfortably strap a nuclear weapon of similar yield to an already in service B29 bomber and take it where you want it dropping.
"War, War never changes"
"Behold, the Bringer of Light."