Blue Peacock

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Blue Peacock, renamed from Blue Bunny and originally Brown Bunny, was a British tactical nuclear weapon project in the 1950s.

The project's goal was to store a number of ten-kiloton nuclear land mines in Germany. These mines were intended to be placed on the North German Plain and detonated by wire or an eight-day timer[1] in the event of Soviet invasion from the east.[2]

  1. ^ Edwards, Rob (16 July 2003). "British army planned nuclear landmines". New Scientist. Archived from the original on 20 October 2012.
  2. ^ Sinai, Tamir (8 December 2020). "Eyes on target: 'Stay-behind' forces during the Cold War". War in History. 28 (3): 16–18. doi:10.1177/0968344520914345.