Britain

September 11, 2025

Britain’s Nuclear land mine chickens

As the Cold War sparked a nuclear arms race between East and West, Britain launched a top-secret operation to deter a potential Soviet invasion of Western Europe. The project: bury nuclear landmines across West Germany, powered by live chickens that… Continue reading
September 6, 2025

The SOE and exploding rats

The British SOE (Special Operations Executive) used many inventive and exotic ways to disguise their explosive devices during the Second World War. One of these was a dead rat developed in 1941. The idea is that a SOE agent will… Continue reading