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 ...

FORT SILL, Okla.--The M65 Atomic Cannon "Atomic Annie" at Fort Sill since 1964 is moving. "Atomic Annie" moved Sept. 14 from the Cannon Walk at Geronimo and Randolph roads to a staging area here where ...

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 ...

The M65 Atomic Cannon, often called Atomic Annie, was a towed artillery piece built by the United States and capable of firing a nuclear device. It was developed in the early 1950s, at the beginning ...

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 ...

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 ...