Henry Spencer wrote:

Of course, the crew that *really* didn't want to hear/see anything like
that were the folks aboard the Ethan Allen in May 1962, when she did the
only US SLBM test ever with a live warhead...


Frigate Bird! Hardly anyone knows we ever did that one:
http://www.navy.mil/navydata/cno/n87...igate_bird.htm
Where I'd have been a little queasy about being is on the Carbonero or
Medregal at twenty-five miles from the aim point, and thinking to
yourself "I sure hope that thing's guidance system works right." :-)

Pat