Summer is upon us! For me, this means that I don't have to go to work, and I'm completely cool with that. However, teaching History is not just my job, it's actually something I legitimately enjoy. As such, I've decided to kick off this blog where I'll be posting different awesome History ideas and pictures, as well as hosting a History podcast. So stay tuned! It's going to be awesome! I'll leave you, my fair reader, with this fantastic tidbit to start off. Toward the end of the school year we were discussing the Cold War in US History, and I mentioned a short-range nuclear rifle. I don't remember if I mentioned its name in the classroom. It was called the Davy Crockett Gun.
The Davy Crockett had a range of 1.25-2.5 miles and fired a 50 pound warhead with a yield (explosion strength) between 10-20 tons of TNT.
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Government people examining the M-388 atomic warhead--the
ammunition for the Davy Crockett Gun. |
It was one of the smallest nuclear devices ever made. It was deployed in a number of places in the 1960s, but never actually used.
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| The Davy Crockett Gun in the field |
This is probably a good thing, because it called for soldiers to move in to the effected area about 20 minutes after firing the weapon, which would have caused who knows how many problems from radiation. I think I'll leave it there for this post, but again, stay tuned! It should be an awesome summer!
Source for information and images: Wikipedia
