And they thought Newt Gingrich’s idea of a colony on the
Moon was wacky.
Daily Mail
Daily Mail
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.
However, its planning included calculations by astronomer
Carl Sagan, then a young graduate student, of the behavior of dust and gas
generated by the blast.
Viewing the nuclear flash from Earth might have
intimidated the Soviet Union and boosted U.S. confidence after the launch of
Sputnik, physicist Leonard Reiffel told the AP in a 2000 interview.
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