Cold War nuclear mine was filled with chickens

[UM-Bot 6,497]

Back in the 1950s, scientists in the UK developed a nuclear mine that required live chickens to work properly.

https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/324531/cold-war-nuclear-mine-was-filled-with-chickens

[RoofGardener 8,527]

What a preposterous concept ! 

[Nnicolette 1,525]

So it was filled with chickens or there was the idea of filling it with chickens? I'm seeing some conflicting wording used to make a random old thought into news.

[A rather obscure Bassoon 2,137]

A bit Dads Army lol...

[Aardvark-DK 250]

I read the headline, and thought...Nuclear Chicken ? Sounds like an Early C64 game...
Then the article really made me laugh....where they eating weed cakes in the 50s ?

[Troublehalf 93]

This has been known for ages.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3588465.stm

This article is from 2004 as one example, probably known even before that but I'm not going to go digging. Pretty sure it's been mentioned on TV shows as well. This isn't an attack on the matter but simply that the website seems to have been oblivious to this for 14 years at least.

Edited January 3 by Troublehalf