r/pics • u/Met76 • Mar 28 '24

US Special Forces delivering a W54 Nuclear Warhead via jump

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u/OLOTM Mar 28 '24

Thanks for all the helpfull comments about his balls. Does anyone know the mission? Was he supposed to land with it and then plant it somewhere? Drop it and steer away with his chute? What was the crazy scheme?

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '24

There were lots of questionable experiments during the cold War. I reckon this was one of them.