Template:Are You Sure/July 11

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... that Blue Peacock was a British tactical nuclear weapon project in the 1950s intended to design and build ten-kiloton nuclear mines for deployment in Germany; that cold weather presented technical challenges; ; and that that live chickens were proposed as a heating system: the chickens would be sealed inside the casing, with a supply of food and water; they would remain alive for a week or so; with the chickens' body heat keeping the mine's components at a working temperature?