The Davy Crockett Nuclear Weapon

The Davy Crockett recoilless rifle was the smallest nuclear weapon ever deployed by the US.

Davy Crockett warhead on exhibit at the National Museum of Atomic Testing in Las Vegas. My hand shows the scale.

Icons of Aviation History: X-85 Goblin

The tiny little Goblin fighter was intended to be carried inside a bomb bay.

XF-85 Goblin “parasite fighter” on display at the SAC Aerospace Museum

Florida Bushcraft: Bone and Antler Tools

Like Native American tribes everywhere, the people who lived in Tampa Bay before European contact (the Tocobaga) had to meet all their needs from locally-available natural materials.

Because Florida is mostly sand and lacks widespread deposits of stone like chert or flint that are useful for toolmaking, the Tocobaga made many of their everyday tools and implements from alternative materials like bone or shell.

Some alternative materials for tools: antler, oyster shells, and bone

The MX Missile

The Peacekeeper nuclear missile, more commonly known by its pre-deployment designation MX (for “Missile Experimental”), provoked a bitter controversy during the Reagan Administration.

MX Peacekeeper MIRV warhead, at the US Air Force Museum in Dayton. Each cone carries a separate nuclear weapon.

The Attempted Assassination of Richard Nixon

In 1974, a man tried to kill President Richard Nixon by hijacking an airliner and crashing it into the White House.

Byck’s target