A brief History of: Project Blue Peacock

[@PlainlyDifficult]

Hello everyone! I hope you enjoy the video have any suggestions for a future video??

[@mrdelaney4440]

Nikolai puchkov and his home made submarine

[@lupus67remus7]

No idea!!! This is why I like your videos: they teach me something i've never heard about before EVERY TIME! (Yes, I only left cryosleep recently!)

[@hakology]

didnt the yanks nuke the moon a few years ago (like recently within the last 8 years?)

[@numberstation]

Stay behind organisations. Several of their arms caches have been accidentally discovered by the public and explained away as belonging to terrorist groups. Also, as my username suggests, Numbers Stations.

[@EoineyMTX125]

Love your channel and videos can you please do the Goiania incident?

[@karlt8233]

Blackadder: "Who's watching the bomb" Private Baldrick: "Chickens Sir, the chickens are watching the bomb"

[@JazzyJoeJohnson]

Scientists in the 1950s were just bored

[@PlainlyDifficult]

Tell me about it any chance to use a nuke!

[@brucebaxter6923]

Engineers, not scientists. This annoys me.

[@Thatoneguy-e2f]

*inspired

[@cooliobob1274]

Scientists and engineers in the 50s were mostly ex-Nazis and had a wealth of information due to unrestricted expirement parameters... other than funding.

[@KCDash4400cw]

@@PlainlyDifficult you use a nuke when a girl say your PINGAS is small

[@insanejughead]

That one time the Brits wanted to redesign the Schrödinger's cat paradox...

[@petlahk4119]

The chickens are both alive and dead until they are observed. The chickens have died of either radiation or starvation until they are observed. And, if observed you and the chickens will be done in 10 seconds.

[@xiro6]

@@petlahk4119 ....until they are observed,then,chickens and researchers became from solid to gaseous state.some kind of interdisciplinary study.

[@MrZhiBMe]

Do more videos about places seen from the window of a Honda Civic

[@tin2001]

Definitely the best part of the video 😂

[@51WCDodge]

Would make you very unpoular, belive me.

[@SimplyTakuma]

Lmao

[@BillBrasky7718]

You rock!!!!

[@10713412]

"As seen from a Honda Civic"

[@HAMlLTON]

The 50s was the best time for scientists to do whatever the heck they wanted to do

[@51WCDodge]

A lot of things you now take for granted were developed at The Fort. If you have an airbag in your car, the bang was Made In Kent.

[@DynamicSeq]

I have a feeling that they now are working on climate change..

[@LekkerNootje]

I would die (not by radiation though please) to see a nuclear explosion

[@intrepidhero]

I'm a little worried what these bazaar nuclear weapons say about their country of origin. Tzar Bomba - Russia: likes them big; I guess there's nothing too wrong with that. Davy Crockett - US: ok with putting that kind of world ending fire power into the palm your hand; Really needs to get over that gun obsession. The Blue Peacock - Britain: lets combine the apocalyptic power of the atom bomb with the human rights nightmare that is landmines... lets throw on a dash of animal cruelty, perfect; Are you feeling ok there Britain?

[@jimtaylor294]

Ironically the subject of Nuclear Landmines is often mentioned with the USA as the implied country that had it in mind, but then again nuclear mania was mostly their thing at the time. As for "animal cruelty"... technically being instantaneously vaporized by an A Bomb... one of the least worst ends a Chicken could face.

[@paulelephant9521]

Seriously, chickens!? There was no way of incorporating some sort of oil heater or electrical device? I just can't imagine that stuffing a few chickens and some grain into an atomic device is the optimal solution! British eccentricity worked wonders with things like Bletchley Park and the bouncing bomb, but sometimes I think they took it too far!

[@oatlord]

@deathbypowerpoint lol yeah, chickens are definitely the go to in terms of reliability.

[@paulelephant9521]

@deathbypowerpoint well chickens maybe reliable when healthy, but where exactly are the British military going to get a bunch of healthy live chickens in the middle of a nuclear war!? It's not like you can easily store them or even transport the feathery batteries simply, I can't help thinking a standard battery operated heater would be a more workable ( if boring) solution.

[@ChoppedSteak]

@@paulelephant9521 chickens were once extremely common to be seen in every town or city or village, espicially during war when shops would be closed or gone. Not only that, but governments typically ship thousands of live chickens to supply their lines

[@Gunzee]

Chickens are also very patriotic. You think they wouldn't hesitate to set of the bomb upon hearing the March of red boots?

[@ChoppedSteak]

@@Gunzee cluck cluck, god save the queen

[@GalileoAV]

It never ceases to amaze me how bad the nuke fever was. Some problems just don't need a nuclear solution, and scientists spent more time wondering about what they could do rather then what they should do.

[@apoplecticwrenchmonkey]

That is the scientist mentality for you.

[@syahmikadira6832]

Don't you hate it when you & your chaps were drinking tea near the Rhineland when suddenly a chicken-manned atomic mine blew up?

[@PlainlyDifficult]

It would be a downer for the day :D

[@jimtaylor294]

@@PlainlyDifficult Yup. All sorts of things raining down for miles ;) .

[@steve1978ger]

It appears to me that everybody in the 1950ies was either drunk, or insane, or both.

[@Recon135]

Please keep in mind that was a time when the West really feared a Soviet invasion. We had no capability of stopping them with conventional forces, or so we thought.

[@uegvdczuVF]

@@Recon135 So we use chicken powered nuclear land mines? :) What could go wrong?

[@jimtaylor294]

Or it was just that us Brit's wanted the ability to blow up large parts of Germany, and the Reds under the bed gave us the perfect cover story ;) .

[@burnerheinz]

One half of the scientists were insane and the other half invented LSD to consume during research.

[@ryanpayne9119]

So, floods, earthquakes, and simple corrosion could have caused a nuclear detonation? This seems like a brilliant idea. /sarcasm

[@Qxir]

Plans to nuke the moon? I wish someone made a video about that!

[@PlainlyDifficult]

Might make a good Qxir video mate?

[@Qxir]

@@PlainlyDifficult Qxir make a video? Good one

[@hey_bale4115]

Kurtzgezat or however u spell it, did a vid on what would happen if u did

[@tugatomskanimation6370]

The premise of the Space 1999 series suddenly came to mind.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

"Let's nuke the moon!" "But why?" "Because we can!"

[@KRDecade2009]

“Atomic anti-tank mines.” Sounds like something that was made on Krieg in 40k

[@Rober5176]

You’re one of my favorite history channels on KZbin! Keep up the good work!!

[@PlainlyDifficult]

Thank you!

[@florix7889]

DO A VIDEO ON NUKING HURRICANES AND THE MOON!!! this is the most 'Murica thing I've ever heard X)

[@MachineMan-mj4gj]

Also Operation Plowshare; using nukes to dig lakes. Russians tried that,the lake is still radioactive to this day. People still swim in it because Russia.

[@jaydentownsend5402]

One of my chickens died today. Thank you for the upload ;c R.I.P Blackie

[@PlainlyDifficult]

:'(

[@LetsTalkAboutPrepping]

Five Star General: "Just how important are the anti-tampering devices on these things?" Scientist, checking report from a very expensive and destructive test survey: *Pretty Much Important*

[@lee6283]

I've never been this early before. Your channel fills my void

[@PlainlyDifficult]

Thank you!

[@ProlificInvention]

*Plainly Difficult* One of the most interesting channels on KZbin, love your content!

[@PlainlyDifficult]

Thank you!

[@Cemi_Mhikku]

It's lovely how you make crazy/terrifying shit actually comical.

[@TheKlabim]

Really enjoyed the paint-grafics

[@DamoBloggs]

Yay! More absurd atomics! You bring the best stuff chap :)

[@PlainlyDifficult]

Thank you!

[@TheObsidianX]

I think I remember suggesting this a long time ago so thanks for talking about it.

[@PlainlyDifficult]

Thanks for the suggestion!

[@phil4986]

"This was the ultimate in burning your bridges because once used it rendered the surrounding area COMPLETELY USELESS." LOL. Perfectly said.

[@johndeerekid167]

"who needs enemies when you have allies like this" XD

[@OmegablueWolf]

'and this is what it looks like from the window of a honda civic' okay as much as i love the historical content the joke there just broke me, i had to jump back and make sure i actually heard that.

[@Evan64m]

Everybody gangsta till the chicken powered nuclear bomb

[@josiahmycousin]

The moon: but why? People: uh, because we can.

[@Legotruck82]

Regarding animals, ever read up on Anti Tank Dogs?

[@PlainlyDifficult]

Yes it was the soviets if i recall?

[@Legotruck82]

@@PlainlyDifficult as far as I'm aware. IIRC the results weren't good as they were using their own tanks to train the dogs. Quite sad really

[@Cemi_Mhikku]

The issue came in because the tanks smelled different. They kept going after the friendly diesel tanks instead of the enemy gas-powered ones. No enemy casualties, three friendly tanks destroyed and most of the dogs just didn't do much. Serious waste of effort and puppers. Especially the puppers... ;.;

[@pencil677]

@@Cemi_Mhikku thicc

[@pencil677]

@@Cemi_Mhikku The German panzers also looked different to the T70, T34 and the various KV series of tanks due to shape and colour.

[@blakestormcrow6275]

This design redefines the statement "are you chicken?"

[@DatRandomDJ]

As of this moment - 187 likes and 0 dislikes, very impressive for a budding channel. Keep up the excellent work :D

[@PlainlyDifficult]

Thank you!

[@DatRandomDJ]

@@PlainlyDifficult You know what might be a cool video idea? (although I know you must get suggestions all time), the whole Project Genetrix and Luna 3 thing, how the CIA accidentally helped the soviets be the first to take pictures of the far side of the moon. That'd be a cool story to see here done in your style :)

[@theGoogol]

Subbed. I don't like the attempts of humor using bad graphics but the content is undeniable.

[@jimtaylor294]

I think we Brits were really either: A. Trying to one-up our chums in the US as to how outlandish a >insert nuke into existing concept here< we could think of. B. Determined that - after fighting two expensive wars with them in close proximity - that we could vaporise large parts of Germany on short notice, should they misbehave again ;) .

[@joeapo5584]

Make a vid about that whole nuking the moon idea. Sounds super interesting

[@RCAvhstape]

When Monty Python designs a nuclear weapon.

[@seanworkman431]

Mad scientists at it again

[@deltasword1994]

This has got to be the most complicated way to roast some chicken anyone has ever thought of.

[@simonpeter5032]

You should rename your channel “Plainly Nuclear “

[@xzytqweo3538]

I am glad too!

[@kl0wnkiller912]

I was in southern Germany in the US Army in the mid-1980s. When I arrived, the first meeting I had was an introduction to USAFE (US Armed Forces Europe) where I was informed that our only real purpose here was to try and slow down the Russians should they invade, to buy the USA enough time to gear up for full-scale war, a reassuring thought. Having said that, I had some of the best experiences of my life during my time there. Beautiful country and great people, food and beer!

[@piritskenyer]

Great video, the Blue Peacock is always funny :D (What's the opening music?)

[@craigdouglas9806]

TSAR bomba was one CRAAAAZY detonation!

[@bryancaughey7507]

Great videos. Can you do one on either project Pluto (nuclear ramjet cruise missle) or project Orion (pushing a space ship with nuclear bombs).

[@PlainlyDifficult]

Thanks for the suggestions!

[@anameofsomesort959]

I remember one of my favorite professors talking about these nuclear landmines being put down incase of a potential invasion of West Germany, but luckily Stalin died and Khrushchev was all bark and no bite.

[@LordAlacorn]

No bite? He was begged not to test Tsar Bomb at full yield in UN and after half yield test - that we know these days as the biggest ever, begged again not to test anything like that again. Anyway we should be thankful for No Bite on both sides or we would not be here to make our comments.

[@uegvdczuVF]

@@LordAlacorn Yea, that bomb was supposed to be twice the yield 100Mt. The chief designer argued that it would be pointless since the fireball would be so big that most of the energy would simply vent in to the space. In reality he didn't want to do it because he was perfectly aware how much radioactive fallout it would produce and spread around the globe....

[@nezhaprime6195]

found my new binge watching channel

[@xj9779]

What the what? This is the first time I heard that. Those military officials were and are to careless with human life in general. Greetings from Germany still a nice country without nuclear landmines. Btw I love your videos please do more of this.

[@gyromurphy]

Now That's the way to start a video..with the words: nuclear weapons.

[@PlainlyDifficult]

XD

[@psychopeda23]

1:18 that Honda Civic Perspective changes my point of view entirely

[@charlesbehlen6225]

Would love to watch a Plainly Difficult video about Castle Bravo.

[@goldenpun5592]

"any project they could think of" Project Chariot Glad they decided against that one.

[@spef7396]

Live your videos keep it up

[@PlainlyDifficult]

Thank you!

[@chrisbova9686]

I'm thinking, we need more ideas like this.

[@51WCDodge]

The main road at the Fort is called Penny Way after William Penny. At one stage the place was a Boy Scout camp.

[@Folsomdsf2]

fyi, there are far more than 'nuclear minitions' that were installed in germany. There were teams of US engineers from the engineer corps that maintained even conventional explosives much larger than this that would be used by a retreating army. It's pretty much like that at every major stronghold point all the way back to france throughout europe. These nuclear landmines would have been a drop in the bucket compared to what the US put there and.. a lot of it is still there.

[@mryoran1]

Great that use meters end feet !! Ty

[@sarjim4381]

There were already atomic artillery rounds and tactical nuclear missiles available or in the late stage of development. They could be used to actually target enemy concentrations without having to hope the enemy would congregate around your nuclear bomb/chicken coop. This seems like the kind of thing developed in some defense establishment where the employees had no idea what was already available or on the drawing board for the army.

[@phorzer32]

Verry nice. But was do the Chicken do?

[@Allegheny500]

Given that the bombs were to be buried underground, did they provide a snorkel so the chickens could breathe? Or did they figure there was enough air in there for the time required? Gives new meaning when ordering "Atomic wings".

[@Dsdcain]

I like the Cyka Blyat speech bubbles from the tanks. Nice touch. *:)*

[@BartBe]

In my humble opinion: the pretence of 1950's engineers is only outclassed by their batshit insanity...

[@StupidEarthlings]

Need MORE Plainly Difficult Vids Please!!! Got dang imposters are killing me..ffs. do whatever u have to hire people, rob a bank, just narrate something, anything for us!!!

[@ronnielenroberts6136]

Couldn't they used the uranium itself to keep it warm?

[@GalileoAV]

It would seem not. It either didn't let off enough heat, or was too deep within the device to keep the instruments at the casing warm enough.

[@sushimamba4281]

No... that just wouldn't be quirky and weird enough for the Brits.

[@the_retag]

@@GalileoAVu235 is barely radioactive and therefore practically doesnt create heat

[@eyespliced]

Wait, wait. The opening music. What was it? It sounds like the into to one of my all time favorite games; Escape Velocity: Nova.

[@1906Farnsworth]

I have long thought that we should set off nukes on the Moon in the pattern of a peace symbol. A good opportunity to perform tests, and a spectacular display.

[@hazold8541]

Grats on 40k subs! Really enjoying the content! I know of a few good stories here in Aus, like the first shot of the first world war was fired from fort Nepean in Melbourne

[@pencil677]

SUB BOT

[@hazold8541]

@@pencil677 eh wot?

[@trevormillar1576]

How about doing a film on Project Magnificat, a plan to establish a nuclear bomb testing range in....SCOTLAND?

[@sanguiniusonvacation1803]

I got one for ya. the USS Richard Montgomery. it's sunk in the Thames estuary and has hundreds of thousands of pounds of explosives still on board.

[@PlainlyDifficult]

I heard about that not that long ago it’s pretty scary!

[@sanguiniusonvacation1803]

Plainly Difficult by some calculations , if it did go off , a 2-3' wall of water would reach London

[@lornaginetteharrison7168]

What I took away from this informative video: Mmmm.....Irradiated Chicken McNuggets!!!

[@johnanderson5500]

Oh man when you mentioned the chickens i cracked up 😂 i can't imagine that being a serious idea to keep a bomb warm to operate properly. Thank God they didn't use these!

[@thomaskositzki9424]

BTW, atomic mines were later deployed in Germany anyway. And nulcear-armed 'Honest John' short-range missiles operated by the German Army. And nuclear artillery ammunition to be fired from German Army artillery pieces. Range 30km. I lived 5km from such a nuclear artillery shell depot without knowing it (I was a kid, but my parents had no clue either). Fun times, that Cold War. Greetz from Germany.

[@bothewolf3466]

Ostriches would have kept it even warmer. Just grease 'em up to get them in the mine's outer shell. Shoe horns might help.

[@rileybanks1191]

*somethingsomthing*CITATION NEEDED REFERENCE

[@williamchamberlain2263]

Can't help thinking that a radio-thermal heater would have been more appropriate, given the amount of fissile material in there already.

[@AussieWirraway]

1:17 - does this work for other car models too?

[@TheSilentCartgraph3r]

Good times

[@jacobfreeman5444]

The thing I find funny is they couldn't have found a way to use the fact this is a nuclear device to power some form of heating element. Also a device that meant to be put in the ground that malfunctions when it gets wet...? It still explodes but what is the use of an explosive that doesn't blow up the intended target...?

[@whydoyougottahavthis]

Gives new meaning to playing Chicken

[@kingjames4886]

CYKA! haha I remember watching something about this bird heated bomb, crazy brits...

[@deatheternal720]

A brief history of Hisashi Ouchi?

[@SchwaTheOriginal]

1:18 My life is complete, i can die happy.

[@NoNameAtAll2]

0:36 Someone stole Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia from USSR

[@DrArku]

We went independent earlier this time.

[@NoNameAtAll2]

@@DrArku ?

[@DrArku]

@@NoNameAtAll2 Yeah, we heard you were doing horrible things to chickens, so we decided to re-locate to the moon. If you go to the Baltic sea, there's actually holes matching the shapes of the Baltic states now.

[@baksatibi]

Also, the western part of Hungary withdrew from the Warsaw Pact but the eastern part stayed.

[@jasonhaynes2952]

Military Top Brass: "A tamper-proof nuclear landmine? Great Idea!....but how are we going to ensure the cold weather doesn't set them off by accident?" Engineers: "That's taken care of sir, we're going to put chickens in the bomb" Military Top Brass: "That's wonderful. Just splendid...problem solved!"

[@DaveO-te1iv]

Ok, seeing this video now, over 2 years after it was posted, and not really knowing what date it was posted on, I'll admit I needed to double check to make sure this idea wasn't an April Fools joke!

[@aeb1barfo]

Nuclear mining ( around Rifle, Colorado ) and the West end of I-70 which needed a mountain removed. Operation Plowshare. Like " Rods from God" a biblical reference.

[@GoldRaven-oe4by]

So.. once it was armed it would go off it it was moved, got wet or was opened so how would you disarm it if you needes to?

[@tenebrisactual1738]

Was this kind of a precursor to the sadm?

[@loganbaileysfunwithtrains606]

Ah thanks always wonder what that place looked like from a window of a Honda Civic, all the other videos on KZbin of the place are from the windows of Toyota Corollas and Hyundai Elantras

[@rustyrebar9647]

Nuclear 10kT landmine ?With chickens inside? That's beyond insane!!!

[@Vertabreaker3]

You should do a video on the explosion of Krakatoa.

[@jakpar6611]

Do the battle off Samar

[@jonasvandenbroeck3789]

Maybe a video of a lonely Soviet kv2 stoppen a german panzerforce?

[@RobBoss757]

I guess now you can do one on the explosion in Beirut

[@noonestaaqui]

more radioactive content please 🥸

[@tj323i]

Project Blue Waffle was profoundly more damaging.

[@DomOfSin666]

tj323i Throwback to your homie showing you a pic of a blue waffle in 5th grade

[@hugolafhugolaf]

At 1:56, it looks like the bomb is resting on used truck leaf springs...

[@simonpotter7534]

That is one hell of a way to cook your chicken.

[@jdmbeats]

Wasn't Bane driving around Gotham with one of these on the back of a truck?? Lol

[@Nick-rs5if]

Man, the absolute state of nuclear armaments and science in the 1950's. I swear, the only thing missing is Yakety Sax! 😂

[@juliogonzo2718]

"We got some extras laying around, we should probably nuke the moon. You know... just cuz".

[@uzaiyaro]

I guess you could say they were clucking mad.