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[Italian Ufo]

http://rt.com/usa/ne...ar-project-631/

In a secret project recently discovered, the United States planned to blow up the moon with a nuclear bomb in the 1950s as a display of the country’s strength during the Cold War space race.

[Raklian]

http://rt.com/usa/ne...ar-project-631/

In a secret project recently discovered, the United States planned to blow up the moon with a nuclear bomb in the 1950s as a display of the country’s strength during the Cold War space race.

And Carl Sagan was involved.

[Logically Irrational]

I'm not sure what they mean by recently discovered though. I remember hearing about this a long time ago.
http://www.commondre...s/051400-02.htm

I think cracked had an article that included it too. Really awesome (?) plan though, despite the supervillainy of it.

[Matthew]

We'd likely need to use thousands of nukes or create some of those 50 megaton ones.

[Casey]

So they planned to blow up the entire moon, not just detonate a bomb on there? ... hahaha. That's hilarious... I think there was an episode in The Tick where Chairface Chippendale tried to do exactly that. And then the sea tides would be forever changed, and there would probably be other catastrophic changes that would screw up the whole world. Great plan, America.

[Raklian]

So they planned to blow up the entire moon, not just detonate a bomb on there? ... hahaha. That's hilarious... I think there was an episode in The Tick where Chairface Chippendale tried to do exactly that. And then the sea tides would be forever changed, and there would probably be other catastrophic changes that would screw up the whole world. Great plan, America.

There were so many potential risks with this project that they scrapped it. I wonder how the world would think of the US if it did pull off this stunt on the moon... perhaps something worse than the "vauntedness" of the Soviet Union? Or it would have triggered an arms race more dangerous than we went through. Would the Soviet Union have followed after US by detonating the "Tsar Bomb" on the moon instead of here on Earth?

Edited by Raklian, 27 November 2012 - 03:21 AM.

[Italian Ufo]

thats all news to me especially the one of Carl Sagan

[SG-1]

I don't think the U.S. thought they could actually blow up the moon. They probably wanted to make a crater or a visible explosion so the entire world could see an atom bomb go off.

[MarcZ]

What on Earth...

[CamGoldenGun]

What on Earth...

No, MarcZ, what on the Moon!

[UFG]

I think we should nuke Mars!

[EVanimations]

"...And for phase two of my ingenious world domination plot, I shall retreat to the safety of my giant laser bunker, stationed on the moon, of course! There I can observe the havoc wreaked upon the defenseless Earth as the tides go out of control, flooding the entire planet! And for phase three, I shall carve the likeness of my face onto the continents of the world using my moon-based space station fortress death laser of death! NOTHING CAN STOP ME NOW! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAAAAA!!!"

-Carl Sagan, apparently

Edited by EVanimations, 27 November 2012 - 06:23 PM.

[Italian Ufo]

I think we should nuke Mars!

for trolling reasons

[shane_allen]

Here's a semi-serious question: Could superman really hearl all the nukes we have into the sun and it'd have no effect?

I'd like to think no, just because of the shear size of the sun.
And with it's distance from earth, assuming a semi-spherical blast aimed at us, I think the radiation would be a fizzle.
Right?