Be honest, if you had a lot of nukes lying around, you wouldn’t at least consider nuking the moon?
Also when you think about it, nuking the Moon is way less insane than nuking the Earth over 2000 times.
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Dagwood222@lemm.ee 7 months agoen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_A119
You probably know about it, but I thought I’d throw it into the mix.
tl, dr = the Air Force was planning on detonating an atom bomb on the moon because shit like that made sense in the Cold War.
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 6 months ago
The video was inspired by an idea used in ‘The Three Body Problem’ series.
the tl, dr is that atom bombs could be used to make a spaceship.
splatt9990@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
There was also a plan to explode nuclear bombs on shorelines to create artificial harbors, and of course the infamous Project Orion, a manned interstellar spaceship powered by exploding hydrogen bombs. Doing unhinged shit with nukes was all the rage back then I guess
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 6 months ago
If you haven’t seen it, “The Three Body Problem” is a good series with a lot of wild ideas.
They use the hydrogen bomb spaceship idea.