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During the height of the Cold War, the US secretly considered detonating a hydrogen bomb on the Moon under Project A119 - a shocking plan meant to outshine the Soviet space programme after Sputnik.

The fear, ambition, scientific alarm behind this proposal and the terminator line was chosen for maximum visibility.

Finally the warnings about global consequences killed the project.

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TIL about Project A119, the US Air Force's top secret 1958 plan to nuke the moon

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i am realizing through an atla reddit post comment that the us government had actually considered nuking the moon

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Why did America want to nuke the moon? How does the solar system work? Could we ever live on the moon? And are we alone in the universe?

Project A119 could have only come across the desk at NASA in the very late 1950s, given that NASA itself wasn’t officially formed until 1958. It was predominantly planned and discussed by the Air Force, then, and also by the Armour Research Foundation (now known as the IIT Research Institute). Regardless of how late or early NASA may have known about it, though, this was one truly incredible plan, the impact of which really would have been… explosive. Project A119 also went by the slightly less Hollywood title; “A Study of Lunar Research Flights”. And that’s what it was primarily proposed to be, a study.

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In 1958, United States had plans to nuke the moon under the name - Project A119. It was cancelled primarily out of a fear of a negative public reaction, and because a moon landing would undoubtedly be a more popular achievement in the eyes of the American and international public alike.

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In 1959 the United States had a secret plan to explode a nuclear weapon either on or near the surface of the moon. The plan was known as Project A119 and the

I think the title of this week’s podcast episode speaks for itself.

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