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- humanerror, on 06/29/2009, -0/+71THEN WE SHALL KNIT IN THE SHADE
- shifty50fs, on 06/29/2009, -1/+47I want to read more about the people who volunteered to eat cheese with mustard gas in it.
- PowderedToasty, on 06/29/2009, -0/+44[citation needed] if you don't mind.
- Hetman, on 06/29/2009, -0/+37You need to research the battle of Brittian. The Brits were hardcore. Compared to every other country in the war America had it pretty easy. The fullucian islands are the only part of America that was bombed and invaded.
- Haoie, on 06/29/2009, -0/+35It's no weirder than bat bombs, or anti-tank dogs.
- inactive, on 06/29/2009, -5/+34Scientists in the US working on the Manhattan project tried to convince the military to abandon the atom bomb project for quicker and more lethal radioactive weapon. The idea was to mass produce tiny higly radioactive balls and carpet Germany with it. The radiation from these balls would kill all anaimal and plant life within 50 feet of it and it had a half life of 3 years. They figured they could have eaily killed 95% of all Germans and turned Germany in to a dessert within one month of heavy bombing runs over Germany with this radioative weapon. The funny thing is was that military leadership was acutally horified of the thought of efectivly wiping out 50 million people in 4 weeks. And the forbade the scientists from even making prototypes of this weapon.
- CJArgus, on 06/29/2009, -0/+25At this point, I think I would believe anything I'm told was considered during WWII.
- bmcnally, on 06/29/2009, -3/+25A dessert? What kind of dessert? Would it taste like chocolate?!
- doubleoh7, on 06/29/2009, -0/+22What a curious use of grammar that sentence.
- Lavarock, on 06/29/2009, -1/+22I don't know if the schematic for those poison darts was exactly "medieval." They look kind of complex.
- s0krat3z, on 06/29/2009, -0/+18Our needles will blot out the sun!
- Hefelumpman, on 06/29/2009, -0/+16Acute defecation!?
- NCecil, on 06/29/2009, -0/+14Yes, instead they just dropped explosives on the Nazis, like civilized people.
- IHaveIssues, on 06/29/2009, -4/+18I swear the DailyFail has dedicated article submitters for Digg. Brutal.
- youhurtgorgoar, on 06/29/2009, -0/+13The British resolve to be thrifty? They said they didn't use it because it would cost too much...
- Hetman, on 06/29/2009, -0/+13Napalm serves the same function with the added bonus of lighting buildings on fire and being very difficult to put out.
- JordanTW90, on 06/29/2009, -2/+14You really think they volunteered?
- killerhammy, on 06/29/2009, -4/+15needles? i dont care if its teddy bears! anything to kill the nazi's
- Hetman, on 06/29/2009, -1/+12America has a bomb like this right now. It is used as an anti-mine weapon however. Once stuck into a mine it release a corrosive material that eventually explodes it.
- Angostura, on 06/29/2009, -0/+10The explosive-stuffed rats are still my favourite
- mst3kcrow, on 06/29/2009, -0/+10He did Nazi that coming.
- TrouserJazz, on 06/29/2009, -0/+9"Effects included profuse salivation and sweating, acute defecation and retching." They could have just delivered some Taco Bell...
- TobiasParker, on 06/29/2009, -0/+9Yes all Germans were nazis who ate jew babies, it is true i swear.
</s> - r0b1, on 06/29/2009, -1/+9How about dumping boiling oil on them while you're at it? they used to do that back in the day.
- Groovydoo, on 06/29/2009, -0/+8What a period of madness that era.
- BaphClass, on 06/29/2009, -1/+9Guess they wanted the Nazis to literally crap themselves in fear.
- geoken, on 06/29/2009, -0/+7Yeah, everyone in occupied Prague was a Nazi. I'm sure there wasn't a single person in Dresden who didn't wish for the extermination of Jews.
- funklor, on 06/29/2009, -0/+7I think he's exaggerating it a little, but it's not completely untrue.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiological_weapon#H ...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/28/Grov ... - Akairenn, on 06/29/2009, -0/+6Bat bombs ftw.
- gilgamesh23, on 06/29/2009, -1/+7The effects included profuse salivation and sweating, acute defecation and retching. This was decided to be too good a death for the nazis so the project was scrapped.
- poopin, on 06/29/2009, -0/+6FTA: "Dropped from high altitude, they were capable of penetrating the flesh 'for six inches or until stopped by bone'. "
Um, ouch! - Mnementh2230, on 07/01/2009, -0/+6Crazed - that is, by far, the looniest thing I have ever read from you.
- DubYaSee, on 06/29/2009, -0/+5I met Werner von Braun, when he spoke at a small private college near my home town in 1967. Nazi or not, he was a visionary, who was articulate and exciting to listen to. I think the expediency of "cleansing" useful Nazis was a good thing. In reality, it was not so much cleansing Operation Paperclip desirables, as not tarring them with the same brush that was applied to all things German, in those days.
- poidh, on 06/29/2009, -0/+5Not really cute.
- secrity, on 06/29/2009, -0/+5Poison gas would have been prohibited by treaties/laws/conventions against chemical weapons. I have no idea how these needles were exempt from the treaties.
- inactive, on 06/30/2009, -0/+4*Aleutian Islands
- santiago1, on 06/29/2009, -0/+4 AAAAAHHHHH Napalm..... Something about the smell of it in the morning....
- arthursk, on 06/29/2009, -0/+4radscorpion stinger + toy car + darts = way faster death
- shadus, on 06/29/2009, -1/+5So they had a Guantanamo bay too? No one seems to care about that so I don't imagine that will make much of an impression.
- inkubusfan, on 06/29/2009, -1/+5*wonders what a German radioactive dessert tastes like*
- TobiasParker, on 06/29/2009, -0/+4They probably said "We need 50 volunteers, those who don't volunteer will be headed to the Ardennes tomorrow!" Or wherever was the front during the trials, you get my point.
- christoast, on 06/29/2009, -0/+4Wouldn't poison gas be better? Or even explosives loaded with poison pellets?
This story sounds like something Wile E. Coyote would do. - fandyboy, on 06/29/2009, -0/+4Yeah, it sounds like my hangovers!
- WebmastuhB, on 06/29/2009, -1/+4Yeah, they look very complex for the 1940's, which is probably why the program was not economical.
- geoken, on 06/30/2009, -0/+3You miss the point. Allied bombs were being dropped on German cities and even non-German occupied cities under the "***** em, they're Nazis" banner.
- arethuza, on 06/29/2009, -0/+3That sounds awfully like the "Everything Killers" from Neal Stephenson's Anathem rather than something that was actually considered - and lot of very odd things were talked about in the 40's and 50s. However, I could well be wrong!
- woodrow8292, on 06/29/2009, -0/+3"Sir we have come up with a brilliant plan to destroy the Germans. We're going to put poison on these needles and load them into a bomb that will explode scattering the needles everywhere and poison them all."
"And why wouldn't we just drop a regular bomb on them?" - FrancisHC, on 06/30/2009, -0/+3I'm not familiar with anti-tank dogs, but I do like those bat bombs. They were simple, cheap and effective.
They worked by encouraging bats, dropped from an airplane to nest under roofs. On the back of each bat was an incendiary device on a timer that would start a fire, lighting up the house the bat was under.
I much prefer this to nuclear weapons, because it targetted infrastructure instead of civilians. With an atomic weapon, your chances of survival near the blast zone are zero. With the bat bombs, civilians (including women, children and the elderly) actually had a reasonable chance of escaping the home before it burned down.
I wonder how history would have been different had bat bombs been used in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. - michaelrsa, on 06/29/2009, -1/+4Well, that plan would have had the added benefit of increasing their health by three hitpoints for each successful needle strike.
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