• TechnoUnionTypeBeat [he/him, they/them]
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    3 months ago

    Not only that but the US spent the entirety of the Cold War trying to either use nukes again or find some way to deploy nukes to every soldier and conflict possible, with everything from nuclear demolition charges to artillery shells

    Given their way the US would arm every soldier with a nuclear rifle if they could

      • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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        3 months ago

        Many years ago at reddit - I saw that somebody had made a nuke "Davy Crockett" joke. For about 10 seconds I had this dialog with myself in my head "That can't be real. But could it? But it can't. Davy Crockett? How can that be real. I'm the world's dumbest man - I'll google." I still can't believe they named it Davy Crockett.

      • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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        3 months ago

        You could apparently theoretically make an nuclear hand grenade using californium, but it's completely impractical since you would need 2,7 kg of it, while the yearly production is below 1 g and it have halflife of 2,6 year.