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The US now has a notion of "tactical" nuclear weapons. Some reading: http://www.fas.org/_docs/Non_Strategic_Nuclear_Weapons.pdf http://www.fas.org/_docs/Non_S

• ewoodrich 13y ago
  That's been around since 1953 (less than a decade after the first atomic detonation in '45). [1] And we've maintained a limited number of low-yield warheads that would fall under that designation. [2] (as an example) [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_artillery http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_artillery [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B61_nuclear_bomb http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B61_nuclear_bomb