Talk:Blue Peacock

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Rube Goldberg? Surely if this was a British project, it would be Heath Robinson!--193.128.72.68 15:53, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Not sure when that crept in... I've taken it out. Heath Robinson doesn't quite seem right, either - it's a surreal mechanical idea, but his were usually much more complex than simply "take a chicken..." - so I've not mentioned him. (Incidentally, when David Langford wrote about a fictional version of Aldermaston, he set it at "Robinson Heath"...) Shimgray | talk | 17:39, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

I'd like to see more on the strategic purpose of the project. Kent Wang 00:55, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Exploding nuclear chickens... what more strategic purpose do you need? Seriously, I wonder too, because the Rhine is so far to the west that I wouldn't see what purpose they could have served except for some sort of suicide last-ditch effort in case the Ruskis would have made it all the way through Germany and were now about to take France.

The Davy Crockett insanity is rather similar to this, btw. --Bringa 23:07, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

Yep, that was the idea, more or less. It was worried that the Soviets would advance west. Davy Crockett was supposed to be used in the same role. Rsynnott 15:18, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

"The Rhine" is probably a mistake - someone reading British Army of the Rhine literally. I've changed it to the North German Plain, which is mentioned in one of the sources and looks a little bit more plausible. Shimgray | talk | 21:02, 14 October 2006 (UTC)