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Project A119, the Cold War plan to detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon so the flash could be seen from Earth
In the late 1950s, as Sputnik reshaped the Space Race, the U.S. Air Force quietly studied Project A119, a proposal to detonate an atomic bomb on the Moon as a spectacle visible from Earth. The plan ...
In today’s world, it is hard to realize how frightened Americans were at the news of Sputnik orbiting the Earth. Part of it was a fear of what a rival nation could do if they could fly over your ...
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The US once had a secret plan to nuke the moon
In an attempt to catch up in the Space Race, the United States devised a plan to detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon. Project ...
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