Code name policy of assigning code names intended to give no such clues to the uninitiated. For example, the British counter measures against the V-2 was called "Operation Crossbow". The atomic bomb project centered in New Mexico was called the Manhattan Project, derived from the Manhattan Engineer District which managed the program. The code name for the American A-12 / SR-71 spy plane project, producing the fastest, highest-flying aircraft in the world, was "Oxcart". The American group that planned that country's first ICBM was called the Teapot Committee. Although the word could stand for a menace to shipping (in this case, that
Cargo 200 (code name) Cargo 200 (code name) Cargo 200 (, "Gruz dvésti") is a military code word used in the Soviet Union and the post-Soviet states referring to the transportation of casualties. Officially, the term "Cargo 200" is military jargon to refer specifically to the corpses of soldiers contained in zinc-lined coffins for air transportation. Unofficially, "Cargo 200" is used to refer to all bodies of the dead being transported away from the battlefield, and as a euphemism for irreversible losses of manpower in a conflict. The first appearance of "Cargo 200" is unknown, except that it came into use in the mid-1980s