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America Considered Nuking Moon During Cold War

Gotta nuke something

Reason Staff | 11.29.2012 7:00 AM


American once hatched a plan to nuke the moon, according to a report from CNN.

The broadcaster interviewed one Leonard Reiffel, a former US Air Force physicist CNN says led the project to plan a lunar nuclear launch.

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