American Mk. 22 ABWS
The Mark 22 Anti-Beatnik Weapon System was a .5 kiloton tactical airburst weapon designed to be dropped on soft targets, though a stray comment by a Department of Defense official about dropping it on beatniks eventually stuck. Never deployed, as the casing developed problems with existing bomb racks that led to stickage.

French AN-32 Cygnus culinary weapon
The AN-32 was designed to simplify military logistics by using a small, “clean” fission detonation to cook thousands of military meals at once. Considered for deployment in a number of conflicts from Vietnam to Algeria, it was ultimately withdrawn after test meals were rendered “unpalatably rubbery” by the French Culinary Corps.

British Green Grocer WE.77 thermal unit
Developed after the intensely cold winter of 1978-79 by the Thatcher administration, the Green Grocer WE.77 was designed to melt large quantities of snow with thermal shock. While tests in the high Canadian arctic were promising, the inability to keep fission products out of meltwater led to its abandonment.

Soviet RDS-4242 propulsion bomblet
Tested off Vladivostok in the mid-1970s, the RDS-4242 was designed as an emergency propulsion system for stranded or disabled Soviet ships. Using a steam catapult and a series of atomic bomblets, the ships could in theory use controlled explosions to navigate. Unfortunately, the catapult worked less well than the bomblets, and sank the freighter Komsomolets in testing with high military officials aboard.

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