#The 280mm Nuclear Cannon

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 The 280mm Nuclear Cannon 5/25/53

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The 280mm Atomic Cannon - Nuclear Artillery Test

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That Time the US Military Made an Atomic Cannon

In 1945, we delivered nuclear bombs by plane. Today, a nuclear arsenal contains ICBMs to deliver nuclear destruction by rocket. In between, one idea for nuclear firepower was to shoot it from a cannon. Engineer Robert M. Schwartz designed the ammunition in 1949, huge 280mm shells with a nuclear tip. Then he had to design […]

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Operation Upshot-Knothole Grable, a test carried out by the U.S. military in Nevada on May 25, 1953. A 280mm nuclear shell was fired 6 miles into the desert by the M65 Atomic Cannon, detonating in the air, about 500 feet above the ground, with a resulting 15-kiloton explosion. U.S. Department of Defense

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During nuclear test Grable, a 280mm nuclear shell was fired from an M65 Atomic Cannon 10 kilometers into the Nevada desert on May 25, 1953. It detonated in the air about 500 feet over the ground, resulting in a 15-kiloton explosion.

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Only in Russia, the 2A3 ‘Kondensator’ 2P nuclear howitzer!

To be completely fair, the US actually also developed nuclear howitzers (the M65 280mm Atomic Cannon), and the 2A3 was produced and designed in response. The US’s M65 was first introduced in 1952, and the Kondensator was quickly built and paraded in 1955 shortly afterwards. 

In contrast to its smaller American counterpart, the Kondensator was mounted on a self-propelled T-10 tank chassis whereas the M65 had to be towed. Both guns had an exceptionally short service life, of only 5-10 years, and only 4 Kondensators were ever built. However, this massive 406mm gun was capable of hurling a 500kg shell to around 16 miles and was still a semi-effective deterrent at least for a few years. Development of nuclear shells for conventional artillery pieces and the ballistic missile led to the Kondensator’s (and M65′s) early retirement in 1962. 

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The 280mm Atomic Cannon - Nuclear Artillery Test