Sometimes you can really tell a Wikipedia article is gonna be good from the table of contents.

[xssfox@cloudisland.nz]

@dan how concerning is it that I know this one?

[sortius@beige.party]

@dan funny thing is, I knew exactly what it was from that TOC

[starkrg@myside-yourside.net]

@dan
"nuclear land mines" Holy shit. Folks in the 1950s must have been literally insane to think up ideas like that.

[gracelesshippo@mastodon.ie]

@dan

That's a click through and full read

[felcryn@mastodon.social]

@dan "The Civil Service does not do jokes." is a good line

Thanks for sharing!

[ozzelot@mstdn.social]

@StarkRG
ai-powered killer drone swarms

the more things change...
@dan

[garland@social.seattle.wa.us]

@dan Nuclear land mines??

[starkrg@myside-yourside.net]

@ozzelot @dan Yeah, nah, AI-controlled killer drones are absurd, but nuclear land mines are significantly worse. Land mines are already some of the worst weapons humans have ever invented, and then let's make them nuclear?

[guillotine_jones@beige.party]

@dan
NOW you've done it, Dan.
This post just prompted a follow from me.

[modernmaslow@techhub.social]

@GracelessHippo @dan A must cluck through!

[mdione@en.osm.town]

@dan sounds like material for Alexander The OK.

[jalefkowit@vmst.io]

@garland @dan They were a real thing for a while. In the early Cold War the solution to every problem was a nuclear weapon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_demolition_munition

[apbblue@thepit.social]

@jalefkowit @garland @dan mother clucker

[georgebaily@mastodon.social]

@dan this exceeded my expectations

[dan@discuss.systems]

@jalefkowit @garland the 1950s and 1960s must have been a great time to be an evil mad scientist

[jalefkowit@vmst.io]

@dan @garland It totally was

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Plowshare

[sborrill@justfollow.me.uk]

@dan "It does seem like an April Fool but it most certainly is not. The Civil Service does not do jokes"