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U.S. Planned To Blow Up The Moon For Cold War Bragging Rights
Monday, November 26, 2012 6:17
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It may sound like a plot straight out of a science fiction novel, but a U.S. mission to blow up the moon with a nuke was very real in the 1950s.
At the height of the space race, the U.S. considered detonating an atom bomb on the moon as a display of America’s Cold War muscle.
The secret project, innocuously titled ‘A Study of Lunar Research Flights’ and nicknamed ‘Project A119,’ was never carried out.
Plot: The U.S. was planning to launch an atomic bomb, like Fat Man, pictured above, that would be launched into space in a scrapped plan to blow up the moon
Read more here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2238242/Cold-War-era-U-S-plan-bomb-moon-nuclear-bomb-revealed.html
What a REALLY stupid article… “BLOW UP THE MOON?” Why is this news?
The US planned to detonate a nuke on the Moon… sure… it would have added one more crater after so many other mega-ton impacts? The moon has survived all these surface impacts… and one needs to survive to enjoy bragging rights, correct? Otherwise, pointless!
Send this article to the “National Enquirer”… that’s where it belongs… not on BIN!!!