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The problem with that is electronics will freeze and it's no good having these nuclear landmines if they're not going to go off. And so the solution had to be, how do we figure out a way to heat these up? There are probably much simpler ways to do it. You know, the original

idea called for using fiberglass pillows to make a really kind of comfy space inside the nuclear landmines.

But the ultimate idea was it called Blue Peacock and it was used live chickens. You're listening to War College, a weekly podcast that brings you the stories from behind the front

lines.

Here are your hosts. Hello and welcome to war college. I'm Matthew Gault. Derek Gannon is almost done with his

finals and we'll be back soon. The Soviet Union sent Sputnik into space in 1957.

By 1958, thanks in part of the work of famed scientist Carl Sagan,

the Pentagon had a plan to show the commies what for by nuking the moon.

Thankfully, it was just a plan.

One that the U.S. never acted on,

but it's far from the only military scheme

that the U.S. and others cooked up over the years.

From bat bombs to an aircraft carrier built from an iceberg military history is full of

outlandish and ridiculous schemes best left abandoned at the planning stages.

Here to help us untangle these James Bond sounding plots is Vince

Houghton. Houghton is a US Army vet who served in the Balkans. Now he is the

historian and curator at the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C.

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