One of the many reasons I follow this fantastic account is that you begin to realize how institutionalized the pursuit of nuclear madness was in the US military and the Government more broadly. For decades, this was pursued with vigor and enormous sums of money and little concern for morality:
Today in 1962 at the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducted the first of two live-fire tests of the W54 warhead and the Davy Crockett recoilless rife. Codenamed LITTLE FELLER II, this test involved a static detonation three feet above the ground. The yield was .022 kilotons (22 tons).
