The Davy Crocket Test

Time for Mr. Peabody to crank up the 'Way Back' machine to Cold War of the early 1960s.

In 1962 the Pentagon tested a tactical nuclear weapon, the Davy Crocket. This was a 0.01 kiloton nuclear tipped shell that was to be used on the battlefield by the U.S. Army. This declassified film shows Robert F. Kennedy in attendance of the demonstration exercise representing the POTUS.

Note the decontamination process for soldiers and jeeps at the end of the film. They used brooms. That's comforting.