re: #149 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines

The Cold War led to some exceedingly strange, not to mention frightening, proposals for the use of nuclear weapons.

How about a delayed action bomb powered by live chickens?

Blue Peacock was a 1950s British proposal to bury 10 kiloton nukes around the North German plain then detonate them among invading Soviets. This could be done by wire, an anti-tampering device, or an 8 day timer. There was a problem though, especially during chilly German winters:

The problem of how to defend the Fulda Gap in West Germany was big on the minds of tacticians from the 50’s to the 70’s. A coworker in the 2010’s who was in a scout unit back in the day said that in the late 70’s the Army decided to to defend it with “pissed off, underpaid black troopers, at night”. I asked him if he was serious. His reply? “Pretty much. Along with a shitpot of enfilading artillery.”