Fired as part of Operation Upshot–Knothole and codenamed Shot GRABLE, a 280 mm (11 inch) shell with a gun-type fission warhead was fired 10,000 m (6.2 miles) and detonated 160 m (525 ft) above the ground with an estimated yield of 15 kilotons.
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Frenchman’s Flat, Nevada - Atomic Cannon Test - History’s first atomic artillery shell fired from the Army’s new 280-mm artillery gun. Hundreds of high ranking Armed Forces officers and members of Congress are present. The fireball ascending.
Thought this was interesting, not small arms related, but we don’t normally think of nuclear weapons outside of the nuclear triad.
They may have called it GAMBLE, 10km sounds like it’s a sentence for your enemy’s Frontline and a 20 years of cancer lottery for yours
They had expected to use them at closer distances as well. Someone I know was deployed in the Pacific with these. They had prepared to use them in close island to island barrages, but never did. He said he was very lucky in WW2.