Nuclear Land mines (for real) (or.... the shit we come up with)

This is damn interesting.


http://www.damninteresting.com/

snip:

In 1950s-era Germany, the British forces which had been stationed there after World War 2 were understandably nervous about an invasion from the Soviet Union. The Cold War had begun, the Iron Curtain was in place, and Stalin was making every effort to compromise Germany's capacity for another war despite attempts by the U.S. and England to rebuild Germany as the economic center of a stable Europe. Additionally, amid tensions, Stalin had split off the Soviet sector of Germany as a communist state.

It was generally perceived that the Soviet Union possessed overwhelming superiority in conventional weapons, and the threat of a new war with the communist USSR was looming over Europe. As part of the preparations for such a conflict, British forces developed a new kind of landmine to leave behind if they were forced to withdraw from Germany. It was codenamed the Blue Peacock, and it was essentially a nuclear landmine.

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more at the link

Sounds like a fuel air flyswatter to me.

nt

it was shot down by an Army General who pointed out the explosion zone was five miles and no troop could throw that far.

I kid you not

I still have trouble getting around the idea of nuclear artillery shells. :scared:

Our government has lots of those people on staff.

I don't think old Davy himself had the nads to use this weapon.

That fat little bomb is a nuke.

:scared:

for that new "Futureweapons" program, and it makes me want to puke. Way to go, getting people excited and fascinated by new and more efficient ways to kill people, Discovery Channel!

Being an airplane buff/pilot I like to watch the military aircraft programs. Surprisingly, if you watch the credits, some of them are PRODUCED by the manufacturers. There is definitely a marketing program going on.