Category Archives: History

Atomic Annie

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This is the actual barrel of Atomic Annie, the world’s only cannon to have fired a nuclear warhead.  It’s sitting at Fort Sill in Oklahoma.

Can you imagine anything more frightening than standing next to a cannon that’s about to fire an atomic payload?  What if it doesn’t go far enough away?  What if it detonates inside the cannon?

Maybe these questions are why it was only fired once.

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Mark Twain’s Typewriter

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…or at least one of Mark Twain’s typewriters.

It’s just awesome for me, as a writer, to have been so close to something that Twain actually used to write.

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