Seventy years ago, on September 17, 1955, a modified Convair B-36 departed Carswell Air Force Base in Texas. Legendary U.S.

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In the 1950s the military tried several new atomic weapons, including firing a nuclear warhead from a 280mm artillery piece. The test worked.

Its doctrine historically considered nuclear weapons to be solely strategic, and held firm to the concept that use of nuclear weapons was beyond the normal threshold for acceptable combat.