Feb 1st 2014, 14:04, by Kwame Opam
Twenty years after nuclear bombs leveled Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the US and Soviet Union were deep in the Cold War. Tensions were high; while the Soviets had the Americans outgunned in terms of conventional arms, the US had a vastly superior store of nuclear power. However, due to President Eisenhower's "New Look" security policy, any and all forms of Soviet aggression would be met with "massive retaliation," meaning a swift nuclear response that could end scores of lives. In order to tamp down on the potential loss of life, military engineers sought after tactical nukes that could strategically destroy enemy infrastructure without killing millions.
Thus came the Special Atomic Demolition Munition (SADM), a "lightweight" nuclear weapon...
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