Related Story. If this is the 2018 Wrangler, Jeep purists have nothing to fear; The W54 warhead had a yield equivalent to 10 to 20 tons of TNT, which was enough to destroy and irradiate roughly a ...

By nuclear standards, the W54 warhead used by the Davy Crockett was tiny, with an explosive yield of .01-.02 kilotons, or the equivalent of 10 to 20 tons of TNT.

The W54 warhead, seen here in the tail of a Davy Crockett recoilless rifle round, was used in the B54 SADM and had a yield between 0.1 kilotons (100 tons of TNT) and 1 kiloton (1,000 tons of TNT.) ...

While it can be armed with a conventional warhead, the AIM-26 is the only American air-to-air missile that can carry a W54 nuclear warhead capable of detonating with the force of 250 tons of TNT.

Since this was one of the peaks of the Cold War, American war planners thought nothing of arming troops with a W54 nuclear warhead attached to a recoilless rifle.

While it can be armed with a conventional warhead, the AIM-26 is the only American air-to-air missile that can carry a W54 nuclear warhead capable of detonating with the force of 250 tons of TNT.