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Re:The US Air Force's plan to detonate a nuclear bomb on the... by valarauca1 on Sunday February 28, 2016 @08:59PM (#11193285)
a project to investigate the visibility [...] of a nuclear explosion on the moon

So the thought process was literally, "I wonder if we could see a nuclear explosion on the moon?"

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Re:The US Air Force's plan to detonate a nuclear bomb on the... by bootload on Sunday February 28, 2016 @10:09PM (#11193411)
@valarauca1 good point, though I'm sure there was a good reason behind this. Did someone think this might be a one-up on Sputnik? Anyway I'm glad it didn't go through. The success rates for US Air Force rockets at that time wasn't good.
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