Description

DescriptionDemonstration cluster bomb.jpg	191. Photocopy of photograph, U.S. Army, ca. 1943 (original print located at Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Commerce City, Colorado). DEMONSTRATION CLUSTER BOMB, SHOWING BOMBLETS. HAER COLO,1-COMCI,1-191 Photo is of a M190 Honest John chemical warhead section containing demonstration M134 GB (Sarin) bomblets.
Date	vers 1943 date QS:P,+1943-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 (implausible, most likely c. 1960, see Additional information below)
Source	Historic American Engineering Record, Library of Congress, Call number HAER COLO,1-COMCI,1-191   Cette image est disponible sur la Prints and Photographs division de la Bibliothèque du Congrès des États-Unis sous le numéro d’identification hhh.co0168. Ce bandeau n’indique rien sur le statut de l’œuvre au regard du droit d'auteur. Un bandeau de droit d’auteur est requis. Voir Commons:À propos des licences pour plus d’informations. العربية ∙ беларуская (тарашкевіца) ∙ বাংলা ∙ čeština ∙ Deutsch ∙ English ∙ español ∙ فارسی ∙ suomi ∙ français ∙ galego ∙ עברית ∙ magyar ∙ Bahasa Indonesia ∙ italiano ∙ 日本語 ∙ lietuvių ∙ македонски ∙ മലയാളം ∙ Nederlands ∙ polski ∙ português ∙ português do Brasil ∙ română ∙ русский ∙ sicilianu ∙ slovenčina ∙ slovenščina ∙ Türkçe ∙ українська ∙ 简体中文 ∙ 繁體中文 ∙ +/−
Auteur	U.S. Army, original print located at Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Commerce City, Colorado

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Additional information

A trimmed version of this image is used as Fig. 2-53 (page 59) in Smart, Jeffery K., Medical Aspects of Chemical and Biological Warfare: Chapter 2 - History of Chemical and Biological Warfare: An American Perspective, Textbooks of Military Medicine, Borden Institute, Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base[1] (published 1997) where it is described as:

Fig. 2-53. A chemical warhead for the Honest John rocket. It was designed to break apart and disperse the spherical bomblets of nerve agent. Photograph: Chemical and Biological Defense Command Historical Research and Response Team, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md.

The text referencing this image states:

For middle-range tactical support, the Chemical Corps standardized the M79 sarin warhead for the 762-mm Honest John rocket in 1960 (Figure 2-53). The rocket had a range of 16 miles, and the warhead held 356 M134 4.5-in. spherical bomblets, each containing about 1 lb of sarin. A smaller warhead was standardized in 1964 for the 318-mm Little John rocket, which held 52 of the improved M139 4.5-in. spherical bomblets, each holding 1.3 lb of sarin (Figure 2-54).

The Historic American Engineering Record claiming this image is "ca. 1943" is implausible, and probably relates to the fact the photo was found at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal which was established in 1943.