[homework]

The US Air Force developed a top-secret plan to detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon as a display of military might at the height of the Cold War.

In an exclusive interview with The Observer, Dr Leonard Reiffel, 73, the physicist who fronted the project in the late Fifties at the US military-backed Armour Research Foundation, revealed America's extraordinary lunar plan.

'It was clear the main aim of the proposed detonation was a PR exercise and a show of one-upmanship. The Air Force wanted a mushroom cloud so large it would be visible on earth,' he said yesterday. 'The US was lagging behind in the space race.'

'The explosion would obviously be best on the dark side of the moon and the theory was that if the bomb exploded on the edge of the moon, the mushroom cloud would be illuminated by the sun.' The bomb would have been at least as large as the one used on Hiroshima at the end of World War II.

Source, and more to read here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2000/m...heobserver

[NaDe]

and This is why the world will end.. Lets make the moon look better buy hitting it with a nuclear weapon!!!

[cheeyea]

haha i heard all europeans think that, but nobody in america has ever heard of it.

[dark]

haha i heard all europeans think that, but nobody in america has ever heard of it.

neither me. I havent had heard of this, Im American. :3

[homework]

I'm actually, an American myself.... I just fount this while searching.... It's only a few days old.

[Ally Mac]

Wow, NASA Have already bombed it, but with a lot smaller explosion, but it was a really powerful.
(If it was to fall towards Earth, it would do more Damage than a Nuclear Bomb, with no Radioactive Fall out)

They were really desperate during the Cold War, Obviously.

[Da Loser]

Would be rather funny if it sling shotted round the moon and came back like in Apollo 13. bubai America :D

[m4tth3vv]

Enjoy your negative rep for misleading the idiots who won't read the fucking article.

[homework]

Enjoy your negative rep for misleading the idiots who won't read the fucking article.

Thank you good sir. For your useless - 3 rep.

[m4tth3vv]

Thank you good sir. For your useless - 3 rep.

Oh no, it's there for a very good reason. Your manipulations of history disgust me.

[dotmann]

and This is why the world will end.. Lets make the moon look better buy hitting it with a nuclear weapon!!!

this lol

[BluntBrother]

If the Moon is 1/3rd the earth, and the earth is 1/4th away from the moon, wouldn't that mean the blast would have to be 1/2 of that, meaning it WOULD touch earth, thus causing either the moon to blow up entirly or the earth to be fucked up.

Either my math is wrong, or these scientists are fucking retarded.

[Chief™]

Would be rather funny if it sling shotted round the moon and came back like in Apollo 13. bubai America :D

It most likely wouldn't hit America due to earthly rotation.

[Bitcoin Life]

What the hell is the point of this?

[Infinity]

If the Moon is 1/3rd the earth, and the earth is 1/4th away from the moon, wouldn't that mean the blast would have to be 1/2 of that, meaning it WOULD touch earth, thus causing either the moon to blow up entirly or the earth to be fucked up.

Either my math is wrong, or these scientists are fucking retarded.

What the fuck are you talking about kid? how can the earth be 1/4 away from the moon, that makes no sense????