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Old 06-19-2013, 05:03 PM   #63 (permalink)
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...but, wait, there's MORE!

The famous psychologist, Dr. B. F. Skinner, recommended using PIGEONS as "guidance control" for bombs and the War Department actually funded him during WWII...up until the Manhatten Project had been proven to work! Later, the USN tried to resurrect the idea, but gave up when electronics proved better.
For an even more strange use of birds in warfare look at operation Blue Peacock. The plan was to use chickens to keep the nuclear land mine warm enough to work.

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