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America's Bid to Blow up the Moon with Nuclear Bomb
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AMERICA planned to blow up the moon with a nuclear bomb in the 1950s, reports have claimed.

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US Military chiefs were reportedly keen on the sensational plot as a show of strength to intimidate arch-rivals Russia at the height of the Cold War.
The secret project was codenamed A Study of Lunar Research Flights and given the nickname Project A119.

The classified plan was to attach a nuclear device to a missile and launch it 238,000 miles to the moon.

The bomb would then explode on impact and the flash could have been seen from earth.
Physicist Leonard Reiffel told Associated Press that the plan was to "intimidate" the Russians and boost morale in America.

A nuclear bomb was chosen because a hydrogen bomb, the most powerful in the US arsenal, would have been too heavy to fly to space.

However the plan was ditched because of a number of fears over safety, including what effect the blast would have on the Earth.

Scientist Carl Sagan was involved in the project and was responsible for calculating what would happen to the moon dust and debris if there was such an explosion.


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That is the stupidist thing i ever heard why would you want to blow up the moon it does nothing bad, it actually does good. It lights up the whole night sky without it it would be pitch black. Also if u blew it up their could be fragments Flying to earth and 1000's of miles per hour.
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It will take hundreds of thousands of nukes to blow it apart but to level it well there is nothing to level but our flag... This sounds stupid tho.
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This is an example of why I think humans will destroy the earth if no-one noticed we arent that bright lol. Didnt know very interesting though
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That would be insane!

If they did that then something crazy would end up happening in the solar system
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That is a very stupid thing to plan out. The affects on our environment would be insane. Plants, animals, and the oceans are affected by the moon. It would destroy things greatly if the moon was gone.
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Without the moon the earth would be knackered, the moon acts as a shield for us from foreign celestial objects such as meteors ect it uses its gravity to swerve incoming objects from the earth into its own gravity or sends it off back into space

hahahaha i like how in the picture above the moon seems to have an atmosphere! the mushroom cloud seems to be wrapping round the moon. Any cloud or debris created by the A bomb would be blown straight out into space as there is no atmosphere to hold it. shows how much "scientists" knew in the 50s.
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Retarded or what-.----
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Dumb idea lol obviously it would effect the earth :facepalm:
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Why would they ever blow up the moon? They must be stupid.
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