JIM
04-01-2004, 06:45 PM
This is'nt an April's fool joke!?
Chicken nuke (http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040401/ap_on_fe_st/britain_chicken_bomb)
The archives released a secret 1957 Ministry of Defense report showing that scientists contemplated putting chickens in the casing of a plutonium land mine.
The chickens' body heat was considered a possible means of preventing the mine's mechanism from freezing.
Listing ways of extending the armed life of the land mine, the declassified document proposed "incorporating some form of heating independent of power supplies under the weapon hull in the emplacement. Chickens, with a heat output of the order of 1,000 BTU (British Thermal Units) per bird per day are a possibility."
Wow. That's frickin weird.
Chicken nuke (http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040401/ap_on_fe_st/britain_chicken_bomb)
The archives released a secret 1957 Ministry of Defense report showing that scientists contemplated putting chickens in the casing of a plutonium land mine.
The chickens' body heat was considered a possible means of preventing the mine's mechanism from freezing.
Listing ways of extending the armed life of the land mine, the declassified document proposed "incorporating some form of heating independent of power supplies under the weapon hull in the emplacement. Chickens, with a heat output of the order of 1,000 BTU (British Thermal Units) per bird per day are a possibility."
Wow. That's frickin weird.