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If batteries had advanced at the same pace as computer processors, a double a cell would contain more energy than a tactical nuke!
how many tactical nukes does the us have?
The M-28/M-29 Davy Crockett, a tactical 'mini nuke' designed to be carried by troops on the ground during the Cold War.
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what are tactical nukes?
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The PEPCON disaster, a chemical plant explosion in Henderson, NV, with an explosive force comparable to a tactical nuke
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The US planned an invasion of mainland Japan with the aid of tactical nukes if Japan wouldn't have surrenderd after the Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombings
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During the North Vietnamese siege of Dien Bien Phu, US Sec of State John Foster Dulles offered the French tactical nukes to destroy the Viet Minh attacking the French garrison there.
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About "rods from god" - An orbital weapon system, first proposed during the cold war, where large, dense metal rods would be dropped from space to bombard targets with the destructive power of a tactical nuke but without the radiation.
