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The Davy Crockett's yield was about 20 tons, so it would be like a really big truck bomb going off.

Michael Faraday worked as an assistant to Sir Humphry Davy for some time.

American examples are some of the most famous, like the Davy Crockett missile.

The Davy Crockett is one of the most scary devices ever made.

He used to travel along with Sir Davy and his wife.

The smallest weapon the US ever produced is the Davy Crockett atomic gun which yields 20 Tons which you can also simulate using the above url.

Yargh, but are you out of Davy Jones' Locker yet?

The M-29 Davy Crockett tactical nuclear recoilless rifle.

Humphry Davy initially called it alumium, then aluminum, then it was decided by others to call it aluminium, which became the dominant spelling (which it still is, internationally).

Despite the fact that the Davy Crockett was very patently a suicide machine, the military did not explain to its soldiers that the warheads' radius of effect was larger than the gun's maximum range.

> One of the most fervent supporters of the Davy Crockett was West Germany's defense minister Franz Josef Strauss, in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

I'd like to see these guys keep a regular ship out of Davy Jones's locker, running experiments and proving concepts for a few years before I'd find them credible operators of colossal floating concrete platforms.

The Davy Crockett makes a pretty good rebuttal to the "nuclear suitcase bombs are impossible" people.

Interestingly, the "Davy Crockett" nuclear rocket had a blast radius in the "building" range, not even quite "city block" range.

I think that is because by the time this was written (1982) Davy Crockett and other tactical nukes had been phased out due to both sides being capable of a "second strike".

Chemical and biological weapons are difficult to control and deploy, and the "Davy Crockett Nuclear Rifle" aside, nuclear weapons are difficult to use for anything other than killing cities, which is rarely a strategically or tactically good thing to do.

During these travels, it is said that Davy's wife used to treat Faraday shabbily, because he came from a lower economic class.

Davy showed that wires glowed when enough current was passed through them.

> Sir Humphrey Davy, its discoverer, called it Aluminum when he published his work Chemical Philosophy in 1812.