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The Atomic Cannon It was fired only once, but it helped end a war by James Lamont The picture below was taken on the morning of May 25, 1953, at the Atomic Energy Commission's Nevada Proving Ground (now the Nevada Test Site). It shows the scene less than a minute after the Army's gigantic Atomic Cannon . made its first and only firing of a nuclear-tipped artillery round. The gun itself was a conventional Cannon , but it had to be extraordinarily big and built with unique features to accommodate its special projectile. The Atomic Cannon shortly after firing, May 25, 1953. The explosion is seven miles away. (NATIONAL OF PETER KURAN). The Cannon was anchored at the south end of Frenchman Flat, about 75 miles northwest of Las Vegas. It launched the projectile 7 miles to the north, where it detonated 524 feet above the desert floor with a force of 15 kilotons, the same as the bomb that had devastated Hiroshima. A crowd of 575 official guests witnessed the test, as did about 2,500 soldiers huddled in trenches in the shadow of the blast, some as close as miles to ground zero, the dry bed of Frenchman Lake.
The Atomic Cannon It was fired only once, but it helped end a war by James Lamont The picture below was taken on the morning of May 25, 1953, at the U.S. Atomic
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