Great Panjandrum: Engineering Absurdity in WWII

How did the brightest engineering minds of the British military during World War II manage to design a weapon so phenomenally absurd and unpredictable that it routinely chased its own generals down the beach during testing? The Great Panjandrum is the ultimate, hilarious case study of wartime desperation colliding with catastrophic physics. In 1943, tasked with finding a way to breach the heavil...