Part of Operation Upshot-Knothole, was a 15-kiloton test fired from a 280-mm cannon on May 25, 1953 at the Nevada Proving Grounds. 72 years ago the U.S. Army carried out its first and only nuclear ...

Cannon inspecting a passing-out parade for recruits of the Prince of Wales’s Division (in which his son was an officer) Commander Tim Cannon, who has died aged 81, helped to put out a fire in a ...

Nicknamed Atomic Annie, the M65 was the largest artillery piece ever fielded by the U.S. Army and was capable of launching a ...

The nuclear cannon dubbed “Atomic Annie” fires a 280 millimeter nuclear artillery shell packing 15 kilotons of explosive force, in this breathtaking image from 1953’s Operation Upshot-Knothole in ...

The story of the M65 “Atomic Annie” cannon is an engaging portrait of the Cold War era—a time when nuclear war hung over everybody and military innovation was motivated by a desire for deterrence as ...

“The U.S. Army has a rifle — they call it a rifle, I would call it a cannon; it’s attached to the front of a tank or a moving vehicle,” Bloomberg said on Tuesday’s Morning Joe on MSNBC. “It shoots a ...

Imagine driving down highway 95 in southwestern Arizona. It’s sunset, not quite twilight yet, but you can see that night is quickly approaching. You’ve just passed a sign saying, “Yuma Proving Ground.

North Korea has warned that American actions have forced it to "bolster" its nuclear arsenal, and put its allies at risk of a retaliatory attack by the cornered regime. On Tuesday, state-run news ...