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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. [1]

15 relations: April Fools' Day, Blue Danube (nuclear weapon), British Army, Chicken, Defence Research Agency, Fort Halstead, Kent, Land mine, List of Rainbow Codes, Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom), North German Plain, Nuclear fallout, Sevenoaks, Tactical nuclear weapon, TNT equivalent.

April Fools' Day

April Fools' Day is an annual celebration in some European and Western countries commemorated on April 1 by playing practical jokes and spreading hoaxes.

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Blue Danube (nuclear weapon)

Blue Danube was the first operational British nuclear weapon.

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British Army

The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of British Armed Forces.

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Chicken

The chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) is a type of domesticated fowl, a subspecies of the red junglefowl.

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Defence Research Agency

The Defence Research Agency (normally known as DRA) was an executive agency of the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) from April 1991 until April 1995.

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Fort Halstead

Fort Halstead is a research site of Dstl, an executive agency of the UK Ministry of Defence.

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Kent

Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties.

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Land mine

A land mine is an explosive device concealed under or on the ground and designed to destroy or disable enemy targets, ranging from combatants to vehicles and tanks, as they pass over or near it.

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List of Rainbow Codes

The Rainbow Codes were a series of code name used to disguise the nature of various British military research projects.

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Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)

The Ministry of Defence (MoD or MOD) is the British government department responsible for implementing the defence policy set by Her Majesty's Government and is the headquarters of the British Armed Forces.

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North German Plain

The North German Plain or Northern Lowland (Norddeutsches Tiefland) is one of the major geographical regions of Germany.

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Nuclear fallout

Nuclear fallout, or simply fallout, is the residual radioactive material propelled into the upper atmosphere following a nuclear blast, so called because it "falls out" of the sky after the explosion and the shock wave have passed.

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Sevenoaks

Sevenoaks is a town and civil parish with a population of 29,506 situated south-east of London in western Kent, England.

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Tactical nuclear weapon

A tactical nuclear weapon (TNW) or non-strategic nuclear weapon is a nuclear weapon, generally smaller in its explosive power, which is designed to be used on a battlefield in military situations, mostly with friendly forces in proximity and perhaps even on contested friendly territory.

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TNT equivalent

TNT equivalent is a convention for expressing energy, typically used to describe the energy released in an explosion.

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Blue Bunny (nuclear weapon), Blue Peackock, Blue peacock, Brown Bunny (rainbow code), Chicken powered nuclear bomb, Chicken-powered nuclear bomb.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Peacock

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