Detonate Nuclear Bomb on Moon

[Bob <caspar@aecom.yu.edu>]

The NY Times is reporting that the US considered dropping a nuclear bomb on
the moon as a show of technical superiority during the cold war after sputnik.

See the following site for details.

http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/051600sci-us-nuke.html

Bob
Robert Casparius, RSO
AECOM
718-430-2243
Department of Environmental Health & Safety

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