Part of Operation Upshot-Knothole, was a 15-kiloton test fired from a 280-mm cannon on May 25, 1953 at the Nevada Proving Grounds. 72 years ago the U.S. Army carried out its first and only nuclear ...

For the first time, physicists have developed a model that explains the origins of unusually stable magic nuclei based ...

The US Army fired a nuclear weapon from its atomic cannon for the first and last time 69 years ago. The cannon, initially named "Able Annie," was later renamed "Atomic Annie." During the May 25, 1953, ...

Key Point: The Soviets lost interest in launching nuclear weapons from tanks, but their usefulness has not disappeared. In the 1950s and 1960s when tactical nuclear weapons were expected to rule the ...

How big is an atomic bomb? It took a B-29 to carry the first one, dropped on Hiroshima, which may have weighed more than 10,000 Ibs. The Army’s announcement last week that it will abandon its ...

Key Points from this Article: By the end of World War II, advancements in military technology rendered traditional battleship guns less decisive. In response, the U.S. Navy explored arming its ...

In Exercise Long Horn, the vast Army-Air Force mock war in Texas, the green-clad Aggressor forces had just seized a position deep behind the defenders’ lines and were massing for a new attack.

The extremely precise control of nuclear excitations opens up possibilities of ultra-precise atomic clocks and powerful nuclear batteries. From atomic clocks to secure communication to quantum ...

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 ...