Part of Operation Upshot-Knothole, was a 15-kiloton test fired from a 280-mm cannon on May 25, 1953 at the Nevada Proving Grounds. 72 years ago the U.S. Army carried out its first and only nuclear ...

Cannon inspecting a passing-out parade for recruits of the Prince of Wales’s Division (in which his son was an officer) Commander Tim Cannon, who has died aged 81, helped to put out a fire in a ...

“The U.S. Army has a rifle — they call it a rifle, I would call it a cannon; it’s attached to the front of a tank or a moving vehicle,” Bloomberg said on Tuesday’s Morning Joe on MSNBC. “It shoots a ...

The nuclear cannon dubbed “Atomic Annie” fires a 280 millimeter nuclear artillery shell packing 15 kilotons of explosive force, in this breathtaking image from 1953’s Operation Upshot-Knothole in ...

Tom Lambert holds his Atomic Veteran medal he received for taking part in Operation Grable. Ever since I was a kid, my dad would tell me how he watched two atomic bombs explode when he was in the ...

Imagine driving down highway 95 in southwestern Arizona. It’s sunset, not quite twilight yet, but you can see that night is quickly approaching. You’ve just passed a sign saying, “Yuma Proving Ground.

In Exercise Long Horn, the vast Army-Air Force mock war in Texas, the green-clad Aggressor forces had just seized a position deep behind the defenders’ lines and were massing for a new attack.