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The US Air Force plan to detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon, Project A119 and the Cold War fear after Sputnik

In the panic after Sputnik, the US Air Force backed a classified study that explored detonating an atomic bomb on the Moon to ...
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Project A119, the US Air Force plan to detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon to win the space race

In the panic after Sputnik, the U.S. Air Force explored an astonishing idea, a nuclear detonation on the Moon as a public show of power, not a scientific mission. This episode follows the classified ...