Armageddon Hootenanny

Earliest known poster for Armageddon Hootenanny.

17 July 1962 - Little Feller I - nuclear weapon test - Nevada Test Site, U.S.

Armageddon Hootenanny is an American television variety show featuring warfare-themed music and humor with the "Military-Industrial State" as the backdrop.

In the News

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History (nonfiction)

The M-28 or M-29 Davy Crockett Weapon System was a tactical nuclear recoilless smoothbore gun for firing the M388 nuclear projectile, armed with the W54 nuclear warhead, that was deployed by the United States during the Cold War. It was the first project assigned to the United States Army Weapon Command in Rock Island, Illinois.[3] It remains one of the smallest nuclear weapon systems ever built, with a yield of 20 tonnes of TNT (84 GJ). It is named after American folk hero, soldier, and congressman Davy Crockett.

Tests

17 July 1962: Little Feller I @ Wikipedia - Little Feller II and Little Feller I were code names for a set of nuclear tests undertaken by the United States at the Nevada Test Site on July 7 and 17, 1962 as part of Operation Sunbeam. They were both tests of stockpiled W54 warheads, the smallest nuclear warheads known to have been produced by the United States, used in both the Davy Crockett warhead and the Special Atomic Demolition Munition.

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles
• The Day the Bomb Cried
• The Green Acres Mile

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Gnomon Chronicles (nonfiction)

External links

• Davy Crockett (nuclear device) @ Wikipedia
• Little Feller (nuclear tests @ Wikipedia
• Hee Haw @ Wikipedia
• Hee Haw: The Next Generation @ YouTube

• War @ Wikipedia
• War with Gwynne Dyer, Part 1: The Road to Total War (1983) @ YouTube
• The Visual History of Decreating War and Violence @ ourworldindata.org

Social media

• Post @ Twitter (17 July 2023) #GnomonOTD Little Feller I
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