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Nuclear bazooka
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_(nuclear_device)
But I would like to say that it’s rarely the scientists pushing the morally corrupt inventions. It’s the suits
Holy shit, the Fatman from Fallout is real ‽
If you’re ever in Albuquerque, New Mexico you can see it in the nuclear museum (can’t recall what it’s specifically called)
This seems like a rather self-defeating weapon really.
How was that weapon supposed to work? "Stay back or we will irradiate our own forces". It's not much of a threat is it.
"Do you want this territory? Because we can give you this territory..."
The yield is small enough that it isn’t a threat to the soldiers launching it. Still, I wouldn’t want to be the one tasked with firing it.
In a similar vein, Project Pluto. Essentially a nuclear ramjet that could fly 150m off the ground at 3,700 km/h, was impossible to intercept at the time, could carry sixteen nuclear warheads and crop-dusted the earth with radiation everywhere it went. It was eventually cancelled for being "too provocative." Which, coming from the US army, is quite a thing lol.
The people over at NCD must be getting raging hardons just from seeing this.