I remember reading as a kid in the 80s. That you could survive on Mars with a heavy coat and a respirator. Like not in some old pulp book, in a contemporary book for kids.
At that point you might as well go with the Japanese lunge mine design.
If a nuke is gonna go off in my general vicinity I'd want to be as close as possible.
You would probably really enjoy Heavy Metal Magazine. Especially the stuff by Moebius. It's a French sci-fi comic magazine the 80's animated movie was based on.
I don't think they make it anymore but there's plenty of back issues to read. A few have been scanned in and put on the Internet Archive and I wouldn't be surprised if you could find more by sailing the high seas.
This is all going so well with my current play through of Caves of Qud, and my planning for a Gamma World campaign. Thank you so much, I plan on descending into these waters and not emerging for a while.
Remind me of the prototype weapon "the davy crocket" it was a concept weapon which would be used by field units preferably mounted to a willys jeep. Which would launch a football sized nuclear warhead.
It never saw deployment because of multi reasons which include
-- it didnt shoot far enough to get the launchers out of explosion range
-- there was alot scrutiny in the 50s over nuclear bombs.
-- it was heavy as fuck
Lots of people says the fallout series of games took heavy inspiration fron the davy crocket to make the fatman