Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The US Army fired a nuclear weapon from its atomic cannon for the first and last time 69 years ago. The cannon, initially named ...

You might rest better at night thinking the U.S. Military has a good handle on what is and what isn't a bad idea in a combat setting. Should America and its NATO allies start wrestling in the mud with ...

The 2B1 "Oka" is Soviet Union's answer to the US' Atomic Annie gun. They were falling behind technologically, which is why they decided to make their own version. It was developed at the height of the ...

Summary: The M65 280mm Motorized Heavy Gun, known as “Atomic Annie,” was a Cold War-era nuclear cannon capable of firing a 15-kiloton nuclear shell. -Introduced in 1952, it was transported by two 4×4 ...

Ever since Tim Lambert was a kid, his dad would tell him how he had watched two atomic bombs explode when he was in the military. Lambert, a journalist at member station WITF in Harrisburg, Penn., had ...

Nicknamed Atomic Annie, the M65 was the largest artillery piece ever fielded by the U.S. Army and was capable of launching a nuclear warhead over long distances. Designed during the tense early years ...

After the specially trained nine-man crew of artillerymen loaded her and hurried out of sight, 40-ft.-long “Amazon Annie” (also called “Atomic Annie”) stood alone and silent on Nevada’s Frenchman Flat ...