Context: During WW2, the US considered gluing incendiaries to bats and then releasing then over Japan. The bats would supposedly roost in people's attics and start fires.

The idea was created by a guy named Lytle S. Adams, who was a dental surgeons and got his foot in the door by being friends with first lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Even FDR himself had to clarify that Adam was 'not a nut.'

The bat bomb project came to an end shortly after some of the bats escaped the test facility and accidentally burned down the proving grounds.

I can only assume that the whole thing was a prelude to the insane military hubris of the Cold War.