US Special Forces Atomic Bomb...

[Chris Boonzaier]

An interesting article....

http://foreignpolicy.com/2014/01/30/the-littlest-boy/

[Chris Boonzaier]

The Bomb

[Paul R]

Creepy stuff.

[dond]

Not at all. And I still think that it detonated when you armed it so as to tie up all the loose ends.

[peter monahan]

Ouch! That's cold. I'm not sure I believe it either, though the US has been accused of equally cynical tactics in all sorts of areas. That sort of thing tends to be counter productive, IMHO, because word inevitably gets out among the troops, which tends to do bad things for morale!

[dond]

That sort of thing tends to be counter productive, IMHO, because word inevitably gets out among the troops, which tends to do bad things for morale!

Not if it happens behind enemy lines. No one expected to get back to the West after the mission was complete. The team I was on intended to E&R to the east and attempt to cross the Bering Straits after a couple of years of walking.

[peter monahan]

Don

Didn't realize you spoke from personal experience. I stand corrected! And I was forgetting the behind the lines part of the equation, which would obviously influence one's potential options. Not a duty I'd ever consider signing up for, I don't think!

Happy New Year!

Peter

[dond]

Peter, we were assigned a target on the Polish plains. The radar coverage maps showed interlocking coverage down to 50' agl. We asked the MC130 pilots what the infiltration plan was. They said they would fly low and slow and pretend to be a helicopter. I asked them what will they do when air traffic control picked them up and asked them to identify themselves (in Russian). They said they would ignore it.

We (the team) decided we would don parachutes and be hooked up to the static line anchor cable before we crossed the FLOT.

[dond]

This thread got me thinking about the olden days. Here is a little reminder of the year I spent as an instructor at the Atomic Demolitions Munitions School. I was given this instead of a plaque when I left. If you read the above posted article closely you can figure out what it is/was.