12 Dumbest Action Movie Weapons

If Mutually Assured Destruction has taught us anything, it's that nuclear weapons are bad.

Not in a small, "Oh, you've accidentally injured yourself with it" bad. I'm talking city-destroying bad.

So why, oh why, would you weaponise a miniature one?

Now, Starship Troopers is inherently a satire of the American war machine. Took me a few viewing attempts to realise that, what with political humour not being a fourteen year old's strong point.

Nuclear weapons, though, I knew enough to know that you probably shouldn't be setting them off in small, enclosed areas. Admittedly, there are against an alien aggressor, but still.

There's so much margin of error that you don't accidentally discharge one yourself, given that priming them doesn't seem overly complicated. What if you sit down too quickly on one, for example?

The same could be said for grenades, yet at least the yield is only going to seriously upset you and whoever's close enough to smell your deodorant. A nuclear device, however, is enough to wipe out a platoon.

And yet, they give these to the grunts! Well, I guess that's why they call them cannon fodder.