F. Kennedy in attendance. The Davy Crockett battlefield nuclear weapon system was designed to destroy enemy armor on the battlefield, giving the U.S. Army extra punch during the Cold War.

Even though the Davy Crockett only had a range of up to 2.5 miles, firing the weapon would not have been a suicidal task for its crew, Kaszeta said. The explosion itself would have been very small ...

His, of course, only had a look-alike model of the nuclear warhead surrounded by the shaped charges that would have ignited the fission explosion. The birth of the Davy Crockett as a possible low ...

The video below shows a Davy Crockett being live-fired before a military audience (skip to 3:35 for the explosion): “It detonated perfectly, releasing its lethal radiation!” Atomic Annie ...