Posted on 06/02/2023 3:09:02 PM PDT by nickcarraway
At the end of the 1950s — a decade shy of Apollo 11’s successful lunar landing — the US military had the radical idea of detonating a nuclear bomb on the surface of the moon, Air Force documents from 1959 show.
“Nuclear detonations in the vicinity of the moon are considered in this report with scientific information which might be obtained from such explosions … The detonation of a nuclear weapon on or near the moon’s surface has often been suggested,” according to the now unclassified report.
“The military aspect is aided by investigation of space environment, detection of nuclear device testing, and capability of weapons in space.” The proposal was only initially made public after famed physicist Carl Sagan — who had worked on the project and came up with the nuclear concept — revealed details of its existence when applying for a fellowship at UC Berkeley’s Miller Institute in 1959.
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They may have launched green cheese missiles at us.
“A Realistic Plan for World Peace
a.k.a
Nuke the Moon
(Originally written August 15th, 2002)”
“World peace cannot be achieved by sitting around on our duffs singing hippy songs to the moon. Peace can only be achieved through excessive acts of seemingly mindless violence. Who do bullies pick on in the playground? The giant, crazy looking guy who looks ready to snap and kill the person nearest or some harmless looking weenie who appears to do anything to avoid conflict? People pick on the weenie because people like to start fights they think they can win.
In the same way, people will continue to attack America and our interests when they get the idea that they can piss off America without us immediately eradicating them and everyone around them in the most painful way possible.
Now, if I were president, here’s what I would do. Next time some country does something we don’t take a pining too, such as supporting terrorism or speaking French, I’d pick the dumbest reason for an attack, e.g., “A ‘q’ should always be followed by a ‘u’. I don’t make the rules, Iraq, but I will enforce them.” The more irrational you look, the more scared the country will be that you will really hit them hard. I’d then give the country the old one-week notice until bombing starts. Then, after just twenty-four hours, I’d start bombing. When the stupid dictator calls to complain, I’d say, “I meant one week max. Oh, and by the way, ground troops – one week.” I’m sure that would be enough to capitulate the average evildoer, but some extra measures could help intimidate others as well. Like, instead of just saturation bombing a city, super-saturation bomb it. After annihilating everything until nothing but ash is left, I’d nuke the ashes.
It’s that extra bit of extremely disproportionate use of force that makes other countries start to wonder if America “has it all together” and really worrying who we’ll lash out against next....
...Now the world will be pretty convinced that America is frick’n nuts and just looking for a fight, but we need to really ingrain it into everyone’s conscious so that no one will ever even contemplate crossing us. This requires making good use of our nukes. I know, nukes can kill millions of people, but they sure aren’t doing anyone any good just sitting around. I mean, how many years has it been since we last dropped a bomb on someone? No one even thinks we’ll actually use one now.
Of course, using nukes shouldn’t be done haphazardly; all uses have to be well planned out because the explosions are so cool looking that we’ll want to give the press plenty of notice so they can get pictures of the mushroom cloud from all sorts of different angles. But what to nuke?
Well, usually the idea is populated cities, but, by the beliefs of my morally superior religion, killing is wrong. So why can’t we be more creative than nuking people. My idea is to nuke the moon; just say we thought we saw moon people or something. There is no one actually there to kill (unless we time it poorly) and everyone in the world could see the results. And all the other countries would exclaim, “Holy @$#%! They are nuking the moon! America has gone insane! I better go eat at McDonald’s before they think I don’t like them.””
https://www.imao.us/a-realistic-plan-for-world-peaceakanuke-the-moon/
Sure there was.
Surveyor-1 was indeed on the moon in 1966, launched by an Atlas Centaur, first launched in 1962.
Surveyor required much more payload mass than a nuclear warhead, as it had to be decelerated and orbited, and landed.
The Atlas Centaur was derived from the Atlas ICBM, in service in 1959, by adding a second stage.
IMHO, hitting the moon with a nuke would have been very feasible for a project begun in 1958. They would likely have been ready to go in the early 60’s.
Delivering a nuclear bomb to the moon would have been easy. It would have had no scientific use and the moon would have been just been fine with a slightly radioactive site of no consequence. Thus we did not do it.
I hope my legs don’t break
How could this be?
According to the ‘flat earthers’ the moon doesn’t even exist. It is merely a projection on the dome meant to fool the ignorant. The sun and stars are fakes too.
Although I’ve yet to hear reasons WHY the secret rulers of Flat Earth would want to fool us into thinking that this is a globe and that the galaxy and the universe exist, or why they would spend the money for centuries to fake it.
“After the 2018 debacle, Republicans learned to use ballot harvesting to their advantage, reclaiming many congressional seats in 2020 and 2022.”
And would not have blown up the moon!
So, wait, flat earthers believe there is no universe? No sun?
What would happen to all of the werewolves?
“So yes, blowing a fission bomb on the surface of the Moon might “ignite” the entire Moon into fusion reaction killing us all.”
I hope you are not being serious! Someone may actually believe you.
We have a moonbase gap.
Bitchute is full of videos by them. Since I am on measured, limited bandwidth (and limited time left of living), I never watch them, but such things are regularly claimed in the titles.
I’ve yet to figure out if the Flat Earthers really believe that crap, or are just screwing with us ‘normies’.
Did they spot a spider?
“Hundreds of millions of years of near zero atmosphere and the Sun bombarding particles has resulted in inches deep Tritium on most of the surface of the Moon. Tritium is a very rare heavy hydrogen isotope used for thermonuclear fusion.”
Tritium has a short half-life rapidly converting into helium. That is why we have to “refurbish” our nuclear weapons from time to time.
When you have a hammer, everything seems like a nail.
Keep it up, keep it up
In 1955, he earned a Bachelor of Science in physics. He went on to do graduate work at the University of Chicago, earning a Master of Science in physics in 1956 and a Doctor of Philosophy in astronomy and astrophysics in 1960. His doctoral thesis, submitted to the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, was entitled Physical Studies of the Planets.[31][32][33][34]
Good luck trying to prove that negative!
Barry couldn't resist.
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