What other actions were scientists so preoccupied with whether or not they could, that they didn't stop to think if they should?
What other actions were scientists so preoccupied with whether or not they could, that they didn't stop to think if they should?
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Nuclear bazooka
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_(nuclear_device)
But I would like to say that it’s rarely the scientists pushing the morally corrupt inventions. It’s the suits
Holy shit, the Fatman from Fallout is real ‽
If you’re ever in Albuquerque, New Mexico you can see it in the nuclear museum (can’t recall what it’s specifically called)
This seems like a rather self-defeating weapon really.
How was that weapon supposed to work? "Stay back or we will irradiate our own forces". It's not much of a threat is it.
"Do you want this territory? Because we can give you this territory..."
The yield is small enough that it isn’t a threat to the soldiers launching it. Still, I wouldn’t want to be the one tasked with firing it.
In a similar vein, Project Pluto. Essentially a nuclear ramjet that could fly 150m off the ground at 3,700 km/h, was impossible to intercept at the time, could carry sixteen nuclear warheads and crop-dusted the earth with radiation everywhere it went. It was eventually cancelled for being "too provocative." Which, coming from the US army, is quite a thing lol.
The people over at NCD must be getting raging hardons just from seeing this.