That was an interrogation "tool" our military used on the VC during the Vietnam war. Any honest door-gunner will tell you they witnessed it more than once.
Did you know they also had a backpack nuclear device called "Baby Huey" that was never strategically deployed?
“In a world whose absurdity appears to be so impenetrable, we simply must reach a greater degree of understanding among us, a greater sincerity.”
Ah the wonderful thinking of the Cold War. "We" had atomic warheads on Honest John rockets that would not go far enough for the rocket crew to escape the damage from the warhead. And torpedoes in submarines with similar warheads that would destroy the sub that fired them.
Just a natural extension of dueling with hand grenades.
"The working class can kiss my arse,
I've got the foremans' job at last.
I'm out of work and on the dole,
You can stuff the red flag up your hole.
The working class can kiss my arse,
I've got the foremans' job at last."
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”