Comments on: Davy Crockett: King of the Atomic Frontier https://www.damninteresting.com/davy-crockett-king-of-the-atomic-frontier/ Fascinating true stories from science, history, and psychology since 2005 Sun, 18 Jul 2021 19:48:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7 By: JarvisLoop https://www.damninteresting.com/davy-crockett-king-of-the-atomic-frontier/#comment-73876 Sun, 18 Jul 2021 19:48:27 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=783#comment-73876 I wasn’t going to post this time, but I saw that nearly an exact year passed since I last posted, and I could not resist.

]]> By: JarvisLoop https://www.damninteresting.com/davy-crockett-king-of-the-atomic-frontier/#comment-73413 Sat, 18 Jul 2020 03:34:53 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=783#comment-73413 Articles such as this make me wonder what secret weapons we have now.

]]> By: JarvisLoop https://www.damninteresting.com/davy-crockett-king-of-the-atomic-frontier/#comment-72890 Wed, 17 Jul 2019 23:48:37 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=783#comment-72890 Nearly a year has passed. How is that possible?

]]> By: JarvisLoop https://www.damninteresting.com/davy-crockett-king-of-the-atomic-frontier/#comment-72523 Sun, 29 Jul 2018 11:09:32 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=783#comment-72523 Finished.

]]> By: Pat https://www.damninteresting.com/davy-crockett-king-of-the-atomic-frontier/#comment-72491 Sun, 17 Jun 2018 12:37:33 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=783#comment-72491 I was a member of the 9th cav during the berlin wall build. We were issued davy crockets and rotated the 14th cav and took up po
sitions near bayerische eisensten with specific targets & ordres to move into Czechoslovakia on receipt of “go” orders.

]]> By: robocm https://www.damninteresting.com/davy-crockett-king-of-the-atomic-frontier/#comment-72260 Wed, 04 Oct 2017 18:45:21 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=783#comment-72260 Alan
Thanks much for this fact filled article about the weapon my father and a couple peers designed at Picatinny Arsenal.
My dad, passed at a young age from skin cancer and never really received (internet) recognition of his accomplishments, and his 2 partners: Robert Schwartz and Milton Epton are in all the photos. The Davey Crockett was on the West Germany lines to deter the eastern block soldier from coming into West Germany & was visited by JFK in May (?) of 1961. Subsequently, my family was flown to DC to the Pentagon where my mother received an award from President Kennedy along with Mr Schwartz and Epton. As the President wrote this weapon system truly did “contribute to the defense of the United States”.
Great story & REALLY APPRECIATED
Robert Mayer

]]> By: Alan Bellows https://www.damninteresting.com/davy-crockett-king-of-the-atomic-frontier/#comment-72049 Tue, 11 Apr 2017 19:52:57 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=783#comment-72049 @Huey P. Neutron: Thanks for your comment, reading it was a honor.

]]> By: Huey P. Neutron https://www.damninteresting.com/davy-crockett-king-of-the-atomic-frontier/#comment-72031 Mon, 27 Mar 2017 09:07:22 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=783#comment-72031 “…crossed the remote desert of southern Nevada to witness an historic event.”

No. They crossed the desert of southern Nevada to witness A historic event.

“An” house?
“An” horrible
“An” hostage”

GRrrrrrrrr…

]]> By: Ojibwe https://www.damninteresting.com/davy-crockett-king-of-the-atomic-frontier/#comment-47922 Fri, 18 Dec 2015 20:10:03 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=783#comment-47922 If you’d been fool enough to call Colonel Crockett “Davy” to his face, I can guaran-dam-tee you his explosive yield would have exceeded 20 tons.

]]> By: Mike https://www.damninteresting.com/davy-crockett-king-of-the-atomic-frontier/#comment-39884 Fri, 17 Jul 2015 15:18:15 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=783#comment-39884 The U.S. had and still has conventional bombs that are bigger than this one. The BLU-82 Daisy Cutter, is dropped from a C-130 cargo plane. Besides dropping on the enemy, it was used in Vietnam to instantly make a clearing for a landing zone.
It was last used against targets in Afghanistan. In 2008 it was retired.
The GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) is its replacement. Blast is 11 tons of TNT.
All evil weapons of war. Well, there are no good weapons of war. War is a total waste.

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