This reminds me that the absolutely deranged and bloodthirsty Americans had designed atomic land minds for the Fulda Gap. Just a nice little grim tidbit about how fucking insane the west is.
"The birds would be put inside the casing of the bomb, given seed to keep them alive and stopped from pecking at the wiring," the BBC notes. The chickens' body heat would be enough to maintain the triggering mechanism's working temperature. In all, the chickens would be estimated to survive for a week, after which time the bomb would return to a possibly cooled and inoperable state.
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In all, the landmines designed in Operation Blue Peacock were thought to yield a 10-kiloton explosion which would produce a crater 375 feet in diameter, according to the American Digest. Such destructive potential ultimately led to the abandonment of the project as the British realized that there would be an unacceptable amount of nuclear fallout from such a blast — never mind the complicated issue of burying nuclear weapons within the territory of an allied nation.
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By 1958, after the production of only two prototypes, Operation Blue Peacock was abandoned.
This reminds me that the absolutely deranged and bloodthirsty Americans had designed atomic land minds for the Fulda Gap. Just a nice little grim tidbit about how fucking insane the west is.
They were designed to have a chicken sitting inside to keep vital components warm
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