DavyCrockettBomb.jpg

Description
English: Photograph of a U.S. developed M-388 Davy Crockett nuclear weapon mounted to a recoilless rifle on a tripod, shown here at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland in March 1961. It used the smallest nuclear warhead ever developed by the United States.
Date
Source Chuck Hansen, The Swords of Armageddon: U.S. Nuclear Weapons Development Since 1945 (Sunnyvale, CA: Chukelea Publications, 1995). [1]
Author US government DOD and/or DOE photograph
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This image is a work of a U.S. military or Department of Defense employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government , the image is in the public domain in the United States.

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An M-388 Davy Crockett mounted to a recoilless rifle on a tripod, March 1961

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March 1961