Most of us go about our lives comforted by the thought “I would never drop a nuclear weapon on the moon.” The truth is that given a lot of power, a nuclear weapon, and a lot of extremely specific circumstances, we too might find ourselves thinking “I should nuke the moon.”
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The U.S. once dreamed of detonating a nuclear bomb on the moon to intimidate the then-Soviet Union, according to a research paper by American scientists.