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Using Nukes For PR – US Was About To Use Nuclear Weapons For The 2nd Time After Russian Space Heroics

As chances of Russia using nuclear weapons in its ongoing conflict with Ukraine remain high, EurAsian Times delves into the past when a secret US government agency was about to nuke the moon only to gain a PR edge over Soviet-Russia.

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The now-defunct Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) of the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), which ran from 2007 to 2012, examined the viability of the proposal.

The plan to nuke the moon, which never materialized, would have involved using thermonuclear devices to blast through the lunar crust and mantle. The US was the first country to use nuclear weapons on Japan in 1945.

The objective of this proposed mission was to look for “extremely lightweight metals” – metals having negative mass – according to the bombshell documents obtained by The Sun under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

These extremely lightweight metals would have been analyzed by creating a tunnel in the moon using ceramic material. One DIA document claimed, “Gravity is the bane of aerospace transportation,” and officials said that “making a tunnel through the moon, provided there is a good supply of negative mass, could revolutionize interstellar space flight.”




An Illustration of US Nuking the Moon by Ryan Inzana (ryaninzana.com)

Researchers speculated that “negative matter” found in the center of the moon formed a material that was as strong as steel but 100,000 times lighter, and it could be used to build spacecraft, thereby substantially bringing down the energy needed to travel through the atmosphere.

And, if this is not enough, this was not the first time that the US government considered nuking the moon.

Officials from the US Air Force (USAF) had proposed similar plans in the late 1950s when the US was involved in the Cold War with the Soviet Union.

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In 1956, while addressing a gathering of Western ambassadors, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev declared: “Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!”

One year later, the declaration was turned into reality by Soviet Russia when it successfully launched the world’s first satellite, Sputnik, in October 1957, which created panic among the upper echelons of the Washington political establishment.

Not only was this a great technological achievement but also a Showcase of Russian superiority. Furthermore, the fact that Sputnik was launched into orbit on an inter-continental ballistic missile (ICBM) doubled the sense of threat among the Americans and the West.

“The West was given a shock with the launch of Sputnik, and very quickly, the US Government flew into action and said we need to do something very spectacular,” said Dr. Vince Houghton, curator of the International Spy Museum in Washington.

“We need to do something so big that the whole world will know that this was just an anomaly, that Sputnik was just a blip, that the United States was still the big kid on the block.”

This led to the birth of a top-secret program known as ‘Project A119’ aimed at creating an explosion and a ‘lunar mushroom cloud’ that should be visible from anywhere on planet Earth so that it would be impossible to ignore the might of the American military and technology.

After several years, Dr. Leonard Reiffel, the physicist who fronted the project in the late Fifties at the US military-backed Armour Research Foundation, revealed to The Observer that the main aim of the proposed detonation was a PR exercise and the USAF wanted a mushroom cloud so large it would be visible on earth.

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