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Topic	What's the smallest possible man-made nuke?
WhiskeyDisk 08/16/20 1:18:43 PM #5:	captpackrat posted... The smallest nuclear weapon system built was Mk-54, used by the M-28 Davy Crockett, a nuclear recoilless rifle. It could fire a 51 pound (23 kg) warhead 1.25 miles (2 km). The warhead had an explosive yield of 10 tons of TNT and measured 10.75 inches (273mm) in diameter and 15.7 inches (400mm) long. That sounds...too close to the nuclear blast to be safe for the forces deploying the weapon. Maybe I'm wrong , but I can't see a real strategic value to radiating something close enough to where your own force may end up being pushed into the fallout zone. --- The SBA has closed for business, we thank you for your patronage Assassins. ~there's always free cheese in a mousetrap. <cite>WhiskeyDisk posted [p:943452094] in What's the... [t:78914703]...</cite> <quote>captpackrat posted... </cite> <quote>The smallest nuclear weapon system built was Mk-54, used by the M-28 Davy Crockett, a nuclear recoilless rifle. It could fire a 51 pound (23 kg) warhead 1.25 miles (2 km). The warhead had an explosive yield of 10 tons of TNT and measured 10.75 inches (273mm) in diameter and 15.7 inches (400mm) long.</quote> That sounds...too close to the nuclear blast to be safe for the forces deploying the weapon. Maybe I'm wrong , but I can't see a real strategic value to radiating something close enough to where your own force may end up being pushed into the fallout zone. --- The SBA has closed for business, we thank you for your patronage Assassins. ~there's always free cheese in a mousetrap.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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