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	Special Atomic Demolition Munition
		The Special Atomic Demolition Munition (SADM) was a United States Navy and Marines project that was demonstrated as feasible in the mid-to-late 1960s, but was never used.
		The project, which involved a small nuclear weapon, was designed to allow one individual to parachute from any type of aircraft carrying the weapon package that would be placed in a harbor or other strategic location that could be accessed from the sea.
		The main one was the Mk-54, a cylinder 40 by 60 centimetes and weighed 68 kilograms, fired by a mechanical timer it had a variable yield from 10 tons up to one kiloton.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/sa/SADM.html (191 words)

	Atomic Demolition Munitions
		Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Since 1940 edited by Stephen I. Schwartz.
		Scientists displaying the warhead (left) and packing container for the Medium Atomic Demolition Munition (MADM), a low-yield (1- to 15-kiloton) nuclear land mine designed to be deployed behind enemy lines and destroy tunnels, bridges, dams, and disrupt enemy troop movements.
		The SADM had a yield of 0.01, or 0.02-1 kiloton and was operationally deployed between 1964 and 1988.
	www.brook.edu /FP/projects/nucwcost/madm.htm (283 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Special Atomic Demolition Munition
		The project, which involved a small nuclear weapon, was designed to allow one individual to parachute from any type of aircraft carrying the weapon package and place it in a harbor or other strategic location that could be accessed from the sea.
		It was fired by a mechanical timer and had a variable yield ("dial-a-yield") equivalent to between 10 tons and 1 kiloton of TNT.
		In the video game Splinter Cell, a SADM known as "The Ark" is used by Georgian terrorists to threaten the United States.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Special_Atomic_Demolition_Munition (337 words)

	MICRO NUKES IN LONDON
		SADM was also used as the warhead on the short-range Davy Crockett Anti-Personnel shell.
		SADM is tiny and lethally efficient: its tightly controlled 0.01 kiloton atomic yield generating the same explosive blast as ten tons of TNT, from a package small enough to send by motorcycle courier.
		Unluckily for the public at large SADM also produces quantities of localized radiation, which can be detected by reading the ultraviolet spectrum in the immediate vicinity of the blast, but few workers in London or New York have access to the scientific equipment needed for such specialized monitoring.
	www.vialls.com /nuke/nukes1.htm (1891 words)

	Munition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Munition is often defined as a synonym for ammunition.
		These munitions are used on battlefields and war zones with lethal intent; unexploded ones may pose a hazard to civilians for years afterwards.
		The Special Atomic Demolition Munition (SADM) was a man-portable nuclear weapon.
	en.askmore.net /Munition.htm (199 words)

	SADM
		SGM Garner, a Special Forces soldier with many years of combat experience, described his high altitude jump from a H-21 helicopter on the back side of Fort Bragg, also the fictional setting of the special munitions depot in Flash of Emerald.
		Open sources describe the Special Atomic Demolition Munition (SADM) as a United States Navy and Marines project that was demonstrated as feasible in the mid-to-late 1960s, but was never used.
		This is the radioactive symbol that Stoner spotted on the case guarded by a pair of Spadefish in the hulk of a grenade-mangled Hatteras somewhere in the Florida Keys.
	johnmtaylor.com /foe/sadm.htm (391 words)

	NUCLEAR WEAPONS: SUITCASE
		Special Atomic Demolition Munition (SADM), a Navy and Marine Corps project that was demonstrated as feasible in the mid-to-late 1960s.
		A version of the ADM for use by Special Forces, the "Special Atomic Demolition Munitions" (SADM), was suitcase or duffle bag size, weighing less than 100 pounds (photo, left, is SADM packing case).
		In 1997, General Aleksandr Lebed claimed that the Soviet Union created one hundred and fifteen atomic demolition munitions (ADMs), low-yield, one kiloton devices that were small, portable, and without safety devices to prevent unauthorized detonation.
	www.olive-drab.com /od_nuclear_suitcase.php (794 words)

	FM 5-102 Chptr 6 Obstacles Other Than Minefields
		Demolition fixtures in bridges permit the destruction of such targets by expediting the installation procedures and simultaneously allowing friendly use of the bridge.
		Demolition chambers are designed to accommodate large quantities of conventional munitions, cratering charges, and satchel charges.
		Demolitions are stored nearby to blow the concrete block supports when the appropriate alert measure has been received and the tactical situation permits.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/policy/army/fm/5-102/Ch6.htm (8529 words)

	UNODC - Nuclear and Radiological Weapons: What's What? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Atomic bomb: two main types are used, fission bombs (uranium or plutonium-based) and fusion bombs (hydrogen-based).
		In a plutonium bomb, a subcritical mass of plutonium-239 is packed with a mantel of explosives that condense a heavy layer of inert tampering metal which passes the impulse on to the plutonium core which, in turn, becomes critical and enters a series of chain reactions, whereby a beryllium layer reflects the neutrons.
		A fusion of the hydrogen isotope deuterium en tritium is brought about with an atomic bomb as initial energizer.
	www.unodc.org /unodc/terrorism_weapons_mass_destruction_page006.html (1071 words)

	ADM's
		Small nuclear weapons, such as atomic demolition munitions (ADM's), were produced by the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
		Some of these types of weapons were designed for use by special forces for sabotage in the event of a war.
		We had, for example, what we called atomic demolition munitions, that were designed to be carried in a backpack.
	home.comcast.net /~mrmnmikey/adm.htm (1474 words)

	The atomic weapons of Osama Bin Laden - analisi difesa - anno 2 nr 20 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The hunt of atomic from Bin Laden has been in course for years as shown the testimonies of Al Queida members arrested in Europe or have deserted with the support of the CIA showing in details the attempts to acquisite South African depleted uranium through Sudan until 1994.
		With laboratories and technical structures, only 20/30 kg of enriched uranium can build an elementary atomic bomb but a serious nuclear threat could be built also only with contaminated devices, ‘dirty bombs’ made with conventional explosive of which detonation sows highly radio-active on surrounding area.
		The Russian intelligence (which has noted some attacks against military and civil atomic deposits, all rejected from security services) already in 1996 launched the alarm for a possible atomic threat built from nuclear waste coming from civil and military reactors ended in hands of Chechen Islamic guerillas related to the Al Queida.
	www.analisidifesa.it /numero20/eng/ef-D-atomic-weapons-eng.htm (596 words)

	spb_sta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Special Atomic Demolition Munition (Mk-54) - A portable nuclear bomb ("suitcase nuke") that has about 1 kiloton of explosive power.
		Species - The basic unit of plant or animal classification.
		Members of a species share characteristics that distinguish them from those of other groups.
	www.etscience.co.za /spb_sta.htm (723 words)

	W54 Special Atomic Demolition Munition (SADM)
		The Special Atomic Demolition Munition (SADM) was a Navy and Marines project that was demonstrated as feasible in the mid-to-late 1960s, but was never used.
		The Davy Crockett, a recoilless launcher, was the third artillery piece deployed, those earlier being a l55mm piece designed to fire a nuclear round and a 280mm mobile piece, commonly called an "atomic cannon." Nuclear-capable ground artillery pieces were gradually replaced by increasingly accurate, nuclear carrying missiles and aircraft.
		The 155 millimeter version, which became the standard issue, had a maximum range of 2.49 miles and could be fired from either a ground tripod mount or from a specially designed jeep mount.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/systems/w54.htm (571 words)

	Traveler's Guide To Nuclear Weapons - Atomic Museums
		Unless otherwise noted, all photographs were taken by the authors during their atomic tours around the nation.
		Atomic Demolition Munition (against the wall), and a Genie rocket.
		An atomic tourist waits for his meal in the mess hall.
	www.atomictraveler.com /AtomicMuseums.htm (1267 words)

	New Page 1
		An atomic bomb with a Uranium 235 core, nicknamed “Little Boy”, was detonated overhead the city with a TNT equivalence of 15,000 tons.
		The “standard” SADM that evolved would eventually have a core of Plutonium 239 encased in a thin shell of non-fissile Uranium 238 known as a “neutron reflector”.
		The years rolled by and top-secret projects were initiated in America and Israel to replace the old SADM with its overly heavy weight and excess radioactivity, culminating in the successful development and testing at Dimona during 1981 of the “new” micro nuclear device.
	www.codshit.com /vialls-bali.htm (4182 words)

	The Unconventional Warrior ARCHIVES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		This true story of a Special Forces officer in Vietnam in the mid-sixties will acquaint you with the unique nature of Special Operations Forces and how covert operations are developed and often masked to permit — even sponsor — assassination, outright purposeful killing of innocents, illegal use of force and bizzare methods in combat operations.
		The dust-initiator charge was an exciting, even awesome special demolition technique designed for specific targets, such as was the case in the design and target application for most special demolition techniques.
		Other special demolition techniques we were acquainted with included homemade napalm, pipe hand grenades, nail grenades, wine bottle cone charges, chemical fire bottles, acid-delay incendiary devices, chemical fire bottles, ribbon explosive charges and sabotage using thermite grenades.
	expendableelite.com /UW_archives/UW_archive.0006.html (2234 words)

	[itb] special atomic demolition munition? (bali)
		Within five microseconds of detonation the awesome million-foot-per-second shock wave hurled two tons of road bed and sand particles upwards and outward in a deadly fan, cutting tourists to bloody ribbons and hurling body parts for several blocks.
		Obviously what you need is a specialized weapon significantly less than twelve inches in diameter, but with a blast capability significantly in excess of 8,000 pounds of conventional explosive.
		All they had to do was dispatch a two-man team to Bali with a SADM, in order to force “simple” Australians to see it their way.
	www.mail-archive.com /itb@itb.ac.id/msg34426.html (1354 words)

	CNS - Are Suitcase Nukes on the Loose?
		The SADM could be transported in a shipping case not too much larger than that described by Lebed (89x66x66cm), and is reported to have weighed “less than 163 pounds” (74 kg).
		About 300 SADMs were deployed by the United States, and Army and Marine Corps commando units were trained to use the munitions, as were the special forces of several US allies, including Germany, Britain, and the Netherlands.
		The SADM was intended for use behind enemy lines to disrupt communications and logistics, a mission similar to that ascribed by Lebed to the Soviet “suitcase” bombs.
	cns.miis.edu /pubs/reports/lebedlg.htm (6610 words)

	NYC TV The US Government's Usage of Atomic Bombs
		In a failed demolition, a 20 story concrete building, Zip Feed Mill in South Dakota, of significantly weaker construction than the WTC buildings, takes a 4 story dive while the top 16 floors remain intact.
		In 1956, the Tamalpais with a yield of 0.072 kt was declassified.
		Prior to the demolition of the WTC buildings, the largest imploded building, Hudson's Department Store was 2.2 million square feet with 33 levels and required 2,728 lbs of explosive.
	www.nyctv.com /us_government_usage_of_atomic_bombs_in_nyc.htm (3289 words)

	frontline: russian roulette: atomic suitcase bombs
		It weighed 80-100 pounds, was small enough to fit in a duffel bag or large case and was designed for sabotage missions-- airfields, bridges, dams.
		Film of the SADM was declassified in 1997 and shows how it would be deployed by a parachutist for a jump mission into water to reach a target.
		This shows how the SADM was designed for a parachute jump and "swimmer delivery system." The SADM was fit into a special flotation bag so the atomic munition would float when the parachutist hit the water.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/russia/suitcase (326 words)

	MercuryNews.com \| 06/23/2003 \| Array of U.S. mini-bombs hints at Russian stockpile
		In the National Atomic Museum in Albuquerque, tourists can reach over the museum's velvet rope and touch the W48, a nuclear artillery shell only 33 inches long and 6 inches in diameter.
		Near the museum's artillery shells is a Special Atomic Demolition Munition, or SADM, better known as the ``backpack nuke.'' A soldier carrying it could leave it under a strategic bridge, for example, with its timer ticking.
		Perhaps the most famous of the small tactical nuclear weapons was the Davy Crockett, the so-called ``atomic bazooka,'' a basketball-sized bomb fired from a gun mounted on a jeep.
	www.mercurynews.com /mld/mercurynews/news/6152959.htm (639 words)

	Nuclear Weapons Factoids
		The US produced, and for many years deployed "Atomic Demolition Munitions." The Medium Atomic Demolition Munition (MADM) produced 1-15 kilotons of yield, and weighed 400 pounds.
		The Special Atomic Demolition Munition (SADM) yielded.01-1 kilotons and weighed only 163 pounds.
		An "atomic bomb" (fission weapon) uses the fission energy directly, while a "hydrogen bomb" (thermonuclear weapon) uses fission to ignite a fusion reaction, achieving much higher energy release.
	www.tinyvital.com /Misc/nukes.htm (2196 words)

	The Davy Crockett and the W54 Warhead
		This project was completed in August 1998 and resulted in the book Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Since 1940 edited by Stephen I. Schwartz.
		A 58.6 pound variant?the B54?was used in the Special Atomic Demolition Munition (SADM), a nuclear land mine deployed in Europe, South Korea, Guam, and the United States from 1964-1989.
		The W54 warhead was designed at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (now the Los Alamos National Laboratory) and built by the Atomic Energy Commission.
	www.brook.edu /FP/projects/nucwcost/davyc.htm (741 words)

	Nuclear Weapons and Radiation - Miscellaneous Facts
		Yet according to estimates of the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR), one of the most distinguished international authority in matters of ionizing radiation, there were only 31 early death among the plant workers and rescue operators, and no early death among the public.
		Conditions in which levels of ionizing radiation could be noxious do not normally occur in the biosphere, so humans required no radiation-sensing organ and none evolved, although all species have always been immersed in the sea of radiation ever since life began.
		The survivors of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki who received instantaneous radiation doses of less than 200 mSv have not suffered significant induction of cancers.
	www.bibliotecapleyades.net /ciencia/ciencia_nuclearweapons.htm (7887 words)

	Lee Tergesen :: Annotated :: JAG
		Lucky for him she's not just a lawyer, she's also a munitions expert.
		SADM is short for Special Atomic Demolition Munition -- kind of a portable nuclear bomb.
		That leaves the trio of lieutenants to figure out Gentry's code to stop the SADM from exploding.
	www.fanfromfla.net /lee/jag.shtml (539 words)

	WARNING: IDF Load Chemical/Atomic Munitions (Photos) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Israeli soldiers load atomic handgrenades onto a military vehicle as Israeli orthodox Jews blow horns, to show their support for the troops, along the Israeli Lebanese border Wednesday July 26, 2006.
		These are not "atomic" in the atomic bomb sense...
		They are most likely chemical munitions (white phosphorus) with radioactive residues from Israel's nuclear power stations thrown in for good measure.
	iraqwar.mirror-world.ru /article/96271 (2699 words)

	Davy Crockett Page
		The Davy Crockett Atomic Battle Group Delivery System was born of a time where the US Army felt it needed some 151,000 nuclear weapons for deployment in a protracted conflict with the Soviet Union.
		A nuclear land mine, the SADM was deployed in the Continental United States, Europe, South Korea, and Guam from 1964 to 1989.
		The M159 Atomic Demolition Munition (ADM) was a man-portable (two-man I'd think better stated) variant of the W54 warhead too.
	www.guntruck.com /DavyCrockett.html (2825 words)

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