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[sean6]

Revealed: How the U.S. planned to blow up the MOON with a nuclear bomb to win Cold War bragging rights over Soviet Union


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.

http://www.dailymail...b-revealed.html

Edited by sean6, 25 November 2012 - 10:22 PM.

[Sir Wearer of Hats]

and the winner of the "biggest threat to the safety of the world" award goes, once again, to the US of A!!!

[freetoroam]

But when they realised it could play havok with our tides and they didn`t have enough money, they decided to do their tests in the Pacific instead.

[Simbi Laveau]

I always so embarrassed to be American . I love my country ,as its my birth place ,but so many things are so ....disgusting...
The average Joe pisses and moans about all the foreigners hating us ,are just jealous,etc,have no clue.No clue at all.

[Star of the Sea]

Wow I've heard it all now (If this is true of course!)

[DancingCorpse]

The leaders of countries often do not reflect the true heart and capacity of those that dwell within the real realm, I know many americans and they are some of the nicest folks I've met, don't worry simbi!

I was gonna say I don't believe it, but the track record goes against it. How can anyone even consider destroying the moon? So utterly disrespectful. Seems like such an infantile and idiotic thought, like some kid who is jealous that his sister got a new bike for her birthday and slashes the tyres... so frightening that fellow humans could even conceive of such a stupid thing!

Edited by DancingCorpse, 25 November 2012 - 11:13 PM.

[Coffey]

Simbi Laveau, on 25 November 2012 - 10:50 PM, said:

I always so embarrassed to be American . I love my country ,as its my birth place ,but so many things are so ....disgusting...
The average Joe pisses and moans about all the foreigners hating us ,are just jealous,etc,have no clue.No clue at all.

I can't really think of one government that is any better to be honest.

It's sad that these people think they represent the people of the country they govern.

It's like IF some alien race cam down, I hope they don't judge us all by our governments.

[xCrimsonx]

Okay so It took 60 years for some one to come up with this.,. "Cut your nose off to spite your face" story!

LOL, Get over it, they got there first!  ;p I'm still waiting for the most mentally undeveloped country to let off everything they have just so they can prove their religion is a waste of time!

We are killing the earth without even touching the moon!

[freetoroam]

Simbi Laveau, on 25 November 2012 - 10:50 PM, said:

I always so embarrassed to be American . I love my country ,as its my birth place ,but so many things are so ....disgusting...
The average Joe pisses and moans about all the foreigners hating us ,are just jealous,etc,have no clue.No clue at all.

You have nothing to be embarrassed about, the normal joe understands its not the normal American joe who is behind this, anyhow, the Americans would not have been doing thinking about this without the help of other countries backing them.

[Orcseeker]

Coffey, on 25 November 2012 - 11:17 PM, said:

I can't really think of one government that is any better to be honest.

It's sad that these people think they represent the people of the country they govern.

It's like IF some alien race cam down, I hope they don't judge us all by our governments.

If an alien race ever came down I hope they take out our governments.

[freetoroam]

Orcseeker, on 25 November 2012 - 11:58 PM, said:

If an alien race ever came down I hope they take out our governments.

me too, but chances are our governments will try and blow them out of the sky before they get past our moon.

[Neognosis]

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I always so embarrassed to be American . I love my country ,as its my birth place ,but so many things are so ....disgusting...

I always more embarrassed that we have a public education system that graduates people from the 8th grade who don't know that this "report" is OBVIOUSLY false.

I even more embarrassed that this lack of critical analysis translates to our electoral process.

[little_dreamer]

Well, the moon was blocking our view of Mars and Jupiter anyway.     

I am a bit skeptical of this.  Mountain sized moon rocks might be attracted to the earth by gravity.  It seems so entirely not worth the trouble.

[Kasey2601]

When there's a write up from somewhere other than the Daily Mail, I'll give the story more thought. Until then....not so much.

[DancingCorpse]

It would be ironic if there was a write up from The Sun newspaper.