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From 1961 to 1971, the U.S. Army Deployed the Smallest Nuclear System Ever Built: What Caused It to Withdraw From West Germany in 1967 Was neither Its Weight nor Its Cost.
The Davy Crockett was the smallest nuclear weapon system ever built, deployed from 1961 to 1971 in West Germany and Asia. Designed to give simple soldiers the power to trigger a nuclear war, it was withdrawn in 1967 for a reason far more troubling than its cost or congestion. More
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The Davy Crockett was the smallest nuclear weapon system ever built, deployed from 1961 to 1971 in West Germany and Asia. Designed to give simple soldiers the power to trigger a nuclear war, it was withdrawn in 1967 for a reason far more troubling than its cost or congestion. More