The Bizarre Project Blue Peacock Of the United Kingdom
Unveil the absurd project to use chickens for detonating nuclear weapons!
You’re not blind and trust me this isn’t an autocorrect or an error! This horrendously absurd project is actually true! During the early 1950’s there was a horrific Cold War between the Soviets as well as the West.
The war was so deadly and both sides were looking for new military advantages over each other. This competition led to a wide range of strange top secret projects!
Trust me, these projects are beyond your wildest imagination! Using LSD as a truth serum upon enemy prisoners to America’s plan to hide nuclear weapons underneath the ice caps of Greenland there were numerous such strange projects!
However, despite all these there was one that stood out from the rest! It was by the British because the Brits have never failed to amaze us with strange and rather bizarre projects. Back in 1949, Germany was divided into two main parts which included West Germany and East Germany!
The Western part was connected to Western Europe while the Eastern part was allies with the USSR. There was a British army known as the British Army of the Rhine that was stationed in Western Germany to protect the border from any invasions.
However, the Soviets had an overwhelming advantage in terms of conventional weaponry and manpower which led the British looking for new ways to destroy the Red Army.
They landed upon the most bizarre advantage which wait for it….. was involving nuclear weapons and live chickens! Yup, take a minute or two to understand that! Let’s dig into this bizarre project by the British!
The Project Blue Peacock
By late 1954, the British War Office started to explore new ideas of a nuclear landmine and they ended up with the name of Project Blue Peacock for this super serious military project! This secret project was mentioned for the first time ever by none other than David Hawkins who was a researcher.
He uncovered this rather strange and fascinating project in his journal back in 2003. The weapon weighed about 16,000 pounds and it had half the firepower of the Nagasaki bomb that the U.S. so mercilessly dropped during World War II.
The British army needed almost ten of these bombs and they decided to bury these bombs along the border of Eastern Germany. The British produced two main prototypes and tested this weapon excluding the nuclear material in a gravel pit!
Using Chickens As Nuclear Detonators
Now if the scientists placed a very small flock of chickens inside the nuclear device with food and water for eight days, the birds would be able to produce the heat needed to keep the bomb viable and warm enough to be used.
A very mysterious and secret document was uncovered from 1957 which describes these chickens having a heat output of almost 1000 British Thermal Units.
In case the birds died they would be a timer for the bomb. Now apart from this absurd means of detonating a bomb there were two other practical means which included a remote detonator aswell as an actual timer.
