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In 1945 the British general staff assessed the possibility of war against the USSR for Poland and concluded it wasn't feasible. It was codenamed Operation Unthinkable.
The British always had funny names for stuff. Their name for their super heavy tank design was Flying Elephant. Funnily enough, the German project of the same was named the Rat.