When the Army tried out nuclear artillery

When the Army tried out nuclear artillery

72 years ago the U.S. Army carried out its first and only nuclear artillery test.  The military actually made an atomic artillery shell, loaded it into a 280mm cannon and fired it. And it worked. Task & Purpose has covered many of the dangerous, strategically questionable and outright bizarre Cold War-era nuclear weapon designs and programs. The nuclear cannon used in Operation Upshot-Knothole wasn’t quite as risky as the Davy Crockett — at the …