США планировали взорвать Луну
Добавлено: 28 ноя 2012, 14:11
США готовились взорвать Луну, чтоб насолить Советскому Союзу и напугать Советы яркой вспышкой.
U.S. planned to blow up the MOON with a nuclear bomb to win Cold War bragging rights over Soviet Union.
Scientists were hoping for giant flash on the moon that would intimidate the 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.
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