Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety

by Eric Schlosser

The Army, however, found ways to adapt. It lobbied hard for atomic artillery shells, atomic antiaircraft missiles, atomic land mines.

I'm not sure which is more ridiculous -- atomic antiaircraft missiles, or atomic land mines. The artillery just seems like a bad idea, but the land mines and antiaircraft missiles seem like a bad joke.