America planned to NUKE THE MOON
Carl Sagan worked on plan to demonstrate military might, says CNN report
America once hatched a plan to nuke the moon, according to a report from CNN.
The broadcaster interviewed one Leonard Reiffel, a former US Air Force physicist CNN says led the project to plan a lunar nuclear launch.
Cold war paranoia drove the project, Reiffel says, with the plan calling for a conventional missile to be directed moonwards. The eventual explosion would make the commies think twice about attacking the USA. Analysis of the explosion was hoped to yield useful data about the performance of US nukes, and maybe a little about the nature of the moon itself.
Project A119, as the plan was known, also considered what it would take to base nuclear missiles on the moon, a location felt to represent a deterrent as if Russia attacked US cities moon-based missiles would give the US last-strike capability that would strengthen the weirdly deterrent effects of mutually assured destruction.
The idea was eventually abandoned as impractical, as the nukes of the day weren't sufficiently reliable to guarantee success. It was also felt best not to disturb the moon's environment. ®
COMMENTS
Re: mentality of our friends from across the pond.
I've thought it before but I'll say it now - thank fuck we had the commies to protect us all from that lunatic redneck Uncle Sam.
Just shows us the mentality of our friends from across the pond.
No wonder so much shit emanates to the rest of the world from there.
I find it deeply disturbing
That anyone would think this was a good idea
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