It wasn’t science fiction. In the 1950s, U.S. soldiers trained to use a portable nuclear weapon - the M-28 “Davy Crockett.” This Cold War device fired a 0.02-kiloton nuclear warhead and could ...

During his lifetime, Crockett—who went by David, not Davy—shaped his own myth. In the 20th century, his legacy got a boost from none other than Walt Disney Greg Daugherty - History Correspondent Fess ...