#NUKES: The madness of Theater Nuclear Weapons, 1953-2024. Henry Sokolski, NPEC.
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ποΈ 10 February 2024
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#NUKES: The madness of Theater Nuclear Weapons, 1953-2024. Henry Sokolski, NPEC.
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- MGR-1 Honest John free flight rocket delivering W7 and later W31 nuclear weapons, 1953β1985.
- M65 Atomic Cannon delivering 280mm W9 and W19 nuclear shells, 1953β1963.
- MGM-5 Corporal missile delivering W7 nuclear weapon, 1955β1964.
- 16"/50 caliber Mark 7 gun on the Iowa-class battleship delivering 406 mm W23 nuclear shells, 1956β1962.
- PGM-11 Redstone missile delivering the W39 nuclear weapon, 1958-1964
- M110 howitzer and M115 howitzer delivering 203mm W33 nuclear shell, 1957β1992.
- M-28/M-29 Davy Crockett (nuclear device) M-388 warhead derived from W54, 1961β1971.
- MGR-3 Little John free flight rocket delivering W45 nuclear weapon, 1962β1969.
- MGM-18 Lacrosse missile with W40 nuclear warhead, 1959β1964.
- M109 self-propelled, M114 towed howitzers and M198 towed howitzers delivering 155mm W48, 1963β1992.
- MGM-29 Sergeant missile delivering W52 nuclear weapon, 1962β1979.
- MGM-31 Pershing missile delivering W50 nuclear weapon, 1962β1969 for Pershing 1, 1969β1991 for Pershing 1a.
- MGM-52 Lance missile delivering W70 nuclear weapon, 1972β1992.
- M110 howitzer and M115 howitzer delivering 203mm W79 nuclear shell, 1976β1992.
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| 0:00.0 | Like some kind of Pizza Ninja, Domino's are slicing their prices. |
| 0:05.0 | Domino's Price Slice. |
| 0:07.0 | Small pizzas now 8 quid, medium now 10 quid, and large now 12 quid. |
| 0:12.0 | Yet we're making cuts too. |
| 0:14.0 | In 11th of February 24, minimum delivery spend, charges and areas may apply. |
| 0:18.0 | To and see see Domino's dot code. UK. Yeah. the Executive Director of the Non-Proliferation Policy Education Center, also the author of Best |
| 0:36.3 | of Intensions, America's Campaign Against Strategic Weapons Proliferation. |
| 0:41.7 | This book has helped me focus on a puzzle that's come up recently and |
| 0:46.0 | Henry's going to guide me through this because he's very familiar with |
| 0:49.8 | proliferation, counter-proliferation, strategic weapons, and the treaties of the 20th century. |
| 0:56.3 | I am most familiar with where this all started. |
| 1:00.6 | And the driver for this is the news report from the United Kingdom that the US intends to station nuclear weapons called theater nuclear weapons at an RAF base in Suffolk of the United Kingdom |
| 1:18.8 | in the event of a conflict with the Russian Federation between NATO and the Russian Federation. |
| 1:25.3 | And I puzzled about where are we going to use such a weapon. |
| 1:29.2 | So it drove me to look up the beginning of something called a theater nuclear weapon, not a strategic |
| 1:36.1 | nuclear weapon, not a city buster, but a theater weapon to be used, I can imagine, against troops, invading troops, armor concentrations, command |
| 1:46.2 | headquarters. It begins with something called Operation Upshot Nothol |
| 1:51.6 | Gable. This is May of 1953, a nuclear weapons test site conducted |
| 1:56.8 | by the United States in the Las Vegas Range. |
| 2:01.4 | It was fired by an artillery weapon, an M65 atomic cannon, and within 10 seconds of the, |
| 2:09.4 | or 20 seconds of the firing, there was a detonation that you could see the mushroom cloud. |
| 2:14.9 | This was the thinking in 1953, the beginning of the creation of what we now call theater weapons. |
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