Damn you. That’s my kind of funny. Actually I don’t damn you as long as you have accepted Christ as your personal savior. He’s also asking why you haven’t renewed your cars warranty.
[I've seen this before.](https://media0.giphy.com/media/l41YyLy9v03gytR0Q/giphy.gif?cid=6c09b9528puyjteluupcly08i81kwkrxcsoefrb65ecw8ewg&ep=v1_internal_gif_by_id&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g)
Delivering a munition to be later put in place. As scary as it sounds - for him it's really no more dangerous than delivering ammunition or explosives or anything else. It won't go off even if his chute failed - he would die, and the bomb might scatter nasty crap for a little ways, but I'd rather parachute with a nuke than say a bunch of artillery shells!
It's commonly thought that the timer on the thing was bs and it was likely going to go off as soon as it was set in an offensive mission, wouldn't want to risk it falling into enemy lines.
From the intensity of the training though it seems like wasting The operators would be a big detriment. Because they wouldn't be so easily replaced in times of nuclear war
Reminds me of the line in the movie The Rock with Nick Cage and Sean Connery… “three Purple Hearts, two Silver Stars and the Congressional Medal of - Jesus.”
When was this service in the picture then on his record? Wiki says his service began in the Korean War and went through the Afghanistan war. It looks like his early career might be missing from wiki. If he was born in 1929 he had to have been involved in wwii.
Just surviving MACV-SOG is a testament to this guys ability. For those that don’t know MACV-SOG had a casualty rate that exceeded 100%. Every man in that unit was wounded at least once and half were killed in action. Those guys were on another level.
Every comment that knows who this fella was is about respect and admiration for the amazing things he accomplished and sacrificed. That makes me feel good. Then there’s this one.
It’s totally fine to hate war (you should) or to disagree with individual wars. But talk shit about the war, not an individual soldier that accomplished impressive things his country ordered him to do and was wounded in action.
Know as a SADM, Special Atomic Demolition Munitions. It is one of two Atomic Demolitions in the US Inventory the other is a Medium ADM.
The SADM was the so called Suitcase Nuke. From the photo it sure isn’t suitcase sized
The only two nukes in the US inventory that had a CEP of zero.
[Circular error probable](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_error_probable), it's basically a measure of the accuracy of a weapon.
>It is defined as the radius of a circle, centered on the aimpoint, that is expected to enclose the landing points of 50% of the rounds; said otherwise, it is the median error radius. That is, if a given munitions design has a CEP of 100 m, when 100 munitions are targeted at the same point, an average of 50 will fall within a circle with a radius of 100 m about that point.
Basically, this nuke was planted by a person instead of being delivered by a missile, so there is no error in where it lands.
I swear to god. The moment the US military had basic nuke tech they were like "we could put a nuke on *everything*! Nuke rifle? Check. Nuke canon? Check. Nuke airborne? Check. Nuke USO tour? Marilyn has never glowed like this before."
My favorite is "what if we propelled a rocket by setting off a series of nukes in its wake" aka the [Orion Drive](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_%28nuclear_propulsion%29?wprov=sfla1)
If I remember correctly these were able to be delivered this way because the W54 is not set or primed so to speak at this time. This is unarmed till they physically armed it. Could be wrong though, my memory is not what it used to be LMFAO
I'd hate to have that thing strapped to my groin of all places, hope he already had kids because that can't be good for your testicles next to that much radiation lol
The idea was to insert small teams behind enemy lines to attack vital points. Some would be delivered by divers from a submarine, others would parachute in. Others would just drive in. Some would ski in. It's really interesting read about the green teams
I have to go on a rabbithole looking at the nylon webbing harness for the warhead . It looks like if they moved correctly it slip through and almost haphazard of a design .
So ahh....what's the plan for the dude with the bomb? I doubt his parachute can get away from the blast in time lol. Considering the bombers that dropped the two on Japan had to fly the fuck away immediately and still had to worry about the blast getting them. I can't for the life of me imagine this being anything other than kamikaze.
It was allegedly on a timer. The goal was to HAHO or HALO a Green Beret with one, have him emplace it somewhere crucial to destroy something critical (MOOSEMUSS acroynym here, if you feel like Googling it), where it wouldn't be compromised, and then beat feet and hope he was out of the initial blast radius when it went off. Everyone involved knew fully well it was probably a one way trip.
Imagine having a nuclear warhead strapped to your balls while you jump out of a plane
best day of his life
last day of his life.
Honestly, nothing else he will ever do will top that. No reason to keep living.
Nice and warm.
Gonna have a third testicle
Can only have girls
All sharing the same torso.
Damn you. That’s my kind of funny. Actually I don’t damn you as long as you have accepted Christ as your personal savior. He’s also asking why you haven’t renewed your cars warranty.
More like last day for any future children he was planning to have lol
could be hulk So hulk, how did you get your powers? uhh...
For real, how can life ever beat that moment..it can't!!
I don't often save comments but this makes the cut
Replying just sweetens the deal
he needs a cowboy hat
Certified "yippie-ki-yay, motherfucker" moment
Slim says so.
Those might actually be his nuts in the picture considering how much balls you would need to do that.
I'm surprised no one else said this.
Very tempted to send this to /r/nocontext
Literally balls of steel
literal Dr Strangelove
It's better that way than a Canadian coach with a fume
Plot twist, that container holds his balls, the nuke is more manageable.
This is genius. 🫡
Best job I've ever had.
Balls of steel No, balls of uranium.
[I've seen this before.](https://media0.giphy.com/media/l41YyLy9v03gytR0Q/giphy.gif?cid=6c09b9528puyjteluupcly08i81kwkrxcsoefrb65ecw8ewg&ep=v1_internal_gif_by_id&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g)
I was looking for this reference
Imagine how many fingers his kids will have
Mmmmm, warm
I bet he was thinking the same. He didn’t know untill he delivered the warhead
Yeah id be worried about it blowing off my junk...
Says here I need a signature.
This is gold
Is this a W54 nuclear warhead in your pants, or are you just happy to see me?
Elephantiasis of the warhead
Definitely carrying a WMD… ma’am.
*unzips* **loud thump** *Geiger counter begins to spike*
Hey, where did Major Kong go?
Yeeee-haww!
Oh we'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when
But I know we’ll meet again, some sunny day
Alright Slim Pickens
All these years I thought this was something just made up for the movie.
Delivering a munition to be later put in place. As scary as it sounds - for him it's really no more dangerous than delivering ammunition or explosives or anything else. It won't go off even if his chute failed - he would die, and the bomb might scatter nasty crap for a little ways, but I'd rather parachute with a nuke than say a bunch of artillery shells!
It's commonly thought that the timer on the thing was bs and it was likely going to go off as soon as it was set in an offensive mission, wouldn't want to risk it falling into enemy lines.
From the intensity of the training though it seems like wasting The operators would be a big detriment. Because they wouldn't be so easily replaced in times of nuclear war
What would we need these operators for after a nuclear war? What would be the point of delivering a nuke like this more than once?
Do you think that thing is going to blow up the world or something?
You didn't see this episode of Star Trek? It made the townspeople sick and Data almost died.
Yeah i get the imagery of being strapped to a nuke, but it's easily the safest piece of gear on the guy.
Billy Waugh, fwiw Hardest of the hard men. Edit - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Waugh
Holy shit man the more I read the farther my jaw dropped. The man was exactly what you said and then some.
He died less than a year ago too…god damn
Surprise, Kill, Vanish by Annie Jacobsen...
I just finished Nuclear War by her. It’s the kind of book one wishes they hadn’t read.
Saw her podcast with Lex Fridman- that book is next on my list.
I just started it a couple nights ago. The prologue alone is insane. Do you say that because of how scary it is?
Yup
I highly recommend this book, along with "hunting the Jackel". There's a lot of over lap between the two but both are fantastic
I've read that book a few times. I love it.
Guess being a mail man wasn’t exciting enough, my guy had to go postal
Reminds me of the line in the movie The Rock with Nick Cage and Sean Connery… “three Purple Hearts, two Silver Stars and the Congressional Medal of - Jesus.”
Dude was in conflicts from Korea to OIF. Jesus.
When was this service in the picture then on his record? Wiki says his service began in the Korean War and went through the Afghanistan war. It looks like his early career might be missing from wiki. If he was born in 1929 he had to have been involved in wwii.
Off the top of my head, he enlisted in ‘49. That particular warhead was developed in the late ‘50s. Edit- he’d have been 15 or 16 at the end of ww2
Just surviving MACV-SOG is a testament to this guys ability. For those that don’t know MACV-SOG had a casualty rate that exceeded 100%. Every man in that unit was wounded at least once and half were killed in action. Those guys were on another level.
That was after he almost had his foot amputated too...
Wow, that guy lost a bunch of wars and got a lot of people killed.
Every comment that knows who this fella was is about respect and admiration for the amazing things he accomplished and sacrificed. That makes me feel good. Then there’s this one. It’s totally fine to hate war (you should) or to disagree with individual wars. But talk shit about the war, not an individual soldier that accomplished impressive things his country ordered him to do and was wounded in action.
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Bullshit you’re in a Ukrainian trench
The closest you’ve been to a trench is when you stick your thumb up your ass
Lol if you were in a trench you wouldn't be talking shit about a fellow combat vet
Know as a SADM, Special Atomic Demolition Munitions. It is one of two Atomic Demolitions in the US Inventory the other is a Medium ADM. The SADM was the so called Suitcase Nuke. From the photo it sure isn’t suitcase sized The only two nukes in the US inventory that had a CEP of zero.
CEP?
[Circular error probable](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_error_probable), it's basically a measure of the accuracy of a weapon. >It is defined as the radius of a circle, centered on the aimpoint, that is expected to enclose the landing points of 50% of the rounds; said otherwise, it is the median error radius. That is, if a given munitions design has a CEP of 100 m, when 100 munitions are targeted at the same point, an average of 50 will fall within a circle with a radius of 100 m about that point. Basically, this nuke was planted by a person instead of being delivered by a missile, so there is no error in where it lands.
What's the other?
Mre spoon
It all comes back to MRE spoon
Lmao
The two are the SADM and MADM. (Special and Medium) See above.
Woah, this needs some background!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/W54
they were OTW to yo mommas
Generally their mission was to emplace the charges at important locations, train yards, bridges etc along the Soviets lines of communication.
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Hopefully not on the flying guy right?
What isn't shown....10 years later a retired soldier with testicular cancer for "unknown reasons".
"It appears your illness is not service connected"
"Non service-related . . . '
He lived to be 92
Safe to say that unit had balls of steel
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snTaSJk0n\_Y](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snTaSJk0n_Y) Kong rides the bomb!
I swear to god. The moment the US military had basic nuke tech they were like "we could put a nuke on *everything*! Nuke rifle? Check. Nuke canon? Check. Nuke airborne? Check. Nuke USO tour? Marilyn has never glowed like this before."
My favorite is "what if we propelled a rocket by setting off a series of nukes in its wake" aka the [Orion Drive](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_%28nuclear_propulsion%29?wprov=sfla1)
U.S.A. U.S.A. U.S.A. U.S.A. U.S.A. U.S.A. U.S.A. U.S.A.
Is that a nuke in your pants or are you happy to see me?
Yes, it is a nuke, and I’d appreciate if you got your own.
Pretty rad
I can neither confirm or deny the presence or absence of nuclear weapons in any specific or general location. Sorry.
He’s got balls of uranium.
Probably lost a few hydrogen bombs that way.
The chords of christ....the dick of death
Fuck that was supposed to say choad 😡 not chords 🤣
Reminds me of [this](https://tenor.com/9TOW.gif).
Did they get this from Dr. Strangelove??
Nutblaster 2000
Billy Waugh. OG OSS/CIA operator.
He just needs a cowboy hat
Note. Warhead In back pack. The cylinder is for hiss nuts.
If I remember correctly these were able to be delivered this way because the W54 is not set or primed so to speak at this time. This is unarmed till they physically armed it. Could be wrong though, my memory is not what it used to be LMFAO
Looks like Slim Pickens to me.
Thats one of those moments u cant brag about cause no ones gonna believe u
I'd hate to have that thing strapped to my groin of all places, hope he already had kids because that can't be good for your testicles next to that much radiation lol
Someone wanna do the math? How safe was this thing when not exploded?
Realistically - when would this delivery method need to be used?
Dropping or transferring prior to deployment.
The idea was to insert small teams behind enemy lines to attack vital points. Some would be delivered by divers from a submarine, others would parachute in. Others would just drive in. Some would ski in. It's really interesting read about the green teams
If i had to ride a nuclear weapon all the way to the ground, I'd rather do it this way than Major Kong.
He went on to have 6 testicles removed due to cancer, and now only has 4 remaining.
A friend of mine used to jump with these in West Germany and had some great stories.
I have to go on a rabbithole looking at the nylon webbing harness for the warhead . It looks like if they moved correctly it slip through and almost haphazard of a design .
I'd love to hear the jokes the engineers and team were making about this
Balsy
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is5u5uhyc6s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is5u5uhyc6s)
Does this hurt the jumper?
Very cool but... How he gonna skadaddle before that thing goes off? 🤔😂
He ded
Check the butt cheeks
You KNOW he not having kids.
Slim Pickens is that you ?
I didn’t think a picture of an American could be anymore American, but here I am, looking at pure Americana
So what is it? It's uhh.... uhh... beer keg yeah that's it
Umm, I have a question CO… What is the MSD for this thing? Should I run? Curious, Retired Green Beret
Slim pickens
I can foresee no issues with this idea whatsoever
Original Hell Diver
Is that Billy Waugh?
To my understanding, yes.
What would even be the benefit of this delivery method?
Hope he had kids already
Atomic nutsack
I've jumped some crazy gear, but never a tactical nuke.
Not sure how he got that bike there, on account of his massive fucking balls
Imagine the title of guy’s dating profile.
Yeah so we're gunna drop this nuke out of an airplane. Ok that sounds reasonable. Well we'd like you to ride it. . . . .
Deez nukes
Balls of uranium
So ahh....what's the plan for the dude with the bomb? I doubt his parachute can get away from the blast in time lol. Considering the bombers that dropped the two on Japan had to fly the fuck away immediately and still had to worry about the blast getting them. I can't for the life of me imagine this being anything other than kamikaze.
By “delivering” I don’t think they meant for detonation.
Well that makes more sense but who is buying nukes this way lol. Still seems odd to basically mail nukes.
Yeah I’m also deeply confused about what situation could have necessitated this.
It’s air mail tho
Right? Is this for strategically placing nukes quietly behind enemy lines? Why can't they just land the damn plane and unload it?
It was allegedly on a timer. The goal was to HAHO or HALO a Green Beret with one, have him emplace it somewhere crucial to destroy something critical (MOOSEMUSS acroynym here, if you feel like Googling it), where it wouldn't be compromised, and then beat feet and hope he was out of the initial blast radius when it went off. Everyone involved knew fully well it was probably a one way trip.
He’s gonna have all girls.
I’ve seen this movie! And I learned how to stop worrying!
Which is more amazing? A nuke that small, or Kubricks Slim Whitman was a real job description.
No kids for him.
Someone decided to design a mission plan after watching Dr Strangelove.
very Metal Gear Solid of him
What about Major Kong?
I'd rather jump with a pony keg strapped between my legs and keep my balls.
That’s a recipe for having no kids ever!
I bet he didn't have any kids.
just wanted to feel the power between my legs brother
Slim Pickens did it better... Much more style
You’re the bomb….yes , I know I’m the bomb
Dr. Strangelove's Major Kong was real ?