Monday, November 26, 2012

Famous last words

"Hey! Watch this!"

Those could literally have been the ending epitaph for all of us if this report is true.

 File photo of the moon. (credit: LIU JIN/AFP/Getty Images)

U.S. Planned On Nuking The Moon  During Cold War In 1950s as a demonstration to the Soviets.



Would Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin even had a moon to walk on if the United States had its way in the 1950s?

During the height of the Cold War, U.S. officials debated whether to detonate nuclear bomb on the moon in order to send a message to the Soviet Union, the Asian News International reports.

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