Atomic annie the cold war cannon that vanished forever
Автор: Legends Lore
Загружено: 2025-08-08
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#coldwarhistory #nuclearcannon #atomicannie In 1953, at a remote nuclear test site in Nevada, the U.S. Army conducted one of the most ambitious — and ultimately impractical — weapons experiments in Cold War history: the test firing of Atomic Annie, a massive nuclear cannon.
Captured in rare footage, the test involved the 867th Field Artillery Battalion, with members of Congress and journalists present to witness history in the making. The M65 cannon, designed specifically to launch a 280mm nuclear shell weighing 272kg, had a yield of 15 kilotons — about one-fourth the power of the Hiroshima bomb.
At precisely 8:30 AM, the shell was launched, and a towering mushroom cloud appeared 32 kilometers away. The explosion’s heat vaporized vehicles within 4 km in under 20 seconds, and its shockwave leveled everything within 10 km.
Despite the dramatic success, the weapon proved too large, too slow, and too vulnerable for real combat use. The test went down in history not as a military breakthrough, but as a lesson in overengineered futility — a powerful cannon that was shelved forever after just one shot.
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