Project A119, also known as A Study of Lunar Research Flights, was a top-secret plan developed in 1958 by the United States Air Force. The aim of the project was to detonate a nuclear bomb on the Moon, which would help in answering some of the mysteries in …

2023年5月8日 · In the 1950s, with the USSR seemingly sprinting ahead in the space race, US scientists hatched a bizarre plan – nuking the surface of the Moon to frighten the Soviets. The moment astronaut Neil...

2022年12月20日 · NASA Hitting the terminator, or line between the light and dark sides of the Moon, was the goal. The Air Force believed they could land a nuke within two miles of their target zone.

2019年7月5日 · Detonating a thermonuclear weapon on the moon? It sounds like the bizarro scheme of a deranged comic-book villain—not a project initiated inside the U.S. government. But in 1958, as the Cold War...

2012年11月30日 · Depending on where the detonation happened, sending the moon careening away from Earth would take somewhere between 10 billion and 10 trillion megatons of TNT. The most powerful nuclear device...

2025年3月20日 · In the 1950s, a project was launched by the U.S. Air Force to send a nuclear bomb to the moon and detonate it. The idea was that the explosion would be seen from Earth, specifically from the Kremlin, and show Russia that the U.S. was still a force to be reckoned with. A young Carl Sagan even worked on the project, which was thankfully scrapped.

2024年11月10日 · The United States would eventually bomb the Moon, sort of, but not in the way the Air Force intended. On Oct. 9, 2009, NASA intentionally slammed a rocket into the surface …

In 1958, the United States Air Force reportedly thought it was a good idea to detonate a nuclear bomb on the surface of the moon. The top secret project, known as ‘A Study of Lunar Research Flights’ but also called A119, was seemingly born out of a desire to intimidate the Soviet Union after it had launched Sputnik I.

2019年2月6日 · Whether small and scientific or large and ghastly, humans keep finding excuses to crash things into the Moon. But at one point, the United States’ military wanted to nuke the Moon.

2023年4月25日 · The plan, dubbed Project A119 (and kept top-secret until it was revealed by a former NASA executive in 2000), was to detonate a nuclear bomb in a crater on the lunar …