May 25, 1953

[JohnMOhio]

At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducted its first and only nuclear artillery test using an M65 Atomic Cannon, nicknamed Atomic Annie. Seven of the 20 cannons that were produced are on display at various military museums.

[togor]

Atomic artillery. Watch the wind direction before firing.

[Vern Humphrey]

At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducted its first and only nuclear artillery test using an M65 Atomic Cannon, nicknamed Atomic Annie. Seven of the 20 cannons that were produced are on display at various military museums.

When I was at OCS at Fort Sill, there was one on display. We were told it was NOT Atomic Annie -- there's only one of her.

[Allen]

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[gwp]

When I was at OCS at Fort Sill, there was one on display. We were told it was NOT Atomic Annie -- there's only one of her.

Not the best source but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M65_atomic_cannon#Surviving_units

Of the twenty M65s produced, at least seven survive on display. Most no longer have their "prime movers".

U.S. Army Artillery Museum, Fort Sill, Oklahoma (This is the original "Atomic Annie" that fired the live nuclear shot. It was restored in 2010[6] and is now displayed with prime movers replacing those that were lost in an accident when the cannon was retrieved from Germany by the museum in 1964.[7])
United States Army Ordnance Museum, Aberdeen, Maryland (still has the two large prime movers attached)
National Museum of Nuclear Science & History, Albuquerque, New Mexico (has two prime movers)
Freedom Park, Junction City, Kansas, overlooking Fort Riley
Rock Island Arsenal, Memorial Field, Rock Island, Illinois
Watervliet Arsenal Museum, Watervliet Arsenal, Watervliet, New York, where they were all manufactured
Yuma Proving Ground, Yuma, Arizona

The Virginia War Museum in Newport News, Virginia has been erroneously identified as possessing a 240mm prototype of the M65. The weapon at the Museum is actually a conventional 240mm T1 Gun, one of two produced as part of a separate design program which was abandoned in favor of the T131 280mm Atomic Cannon program. Both the T1 and T131/M65 share T72 carriages.