Saturday, December 1, 2012

CNN: "The U.S. had plans to nuke the moon."

According to CNN, in 1958, the United States had plans to detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon. According to physicist Leonard Reiffel it was to show the world, read that to mean the Soviet Union, that the United States could maintain a mutually-assured deterrence. Oy. Sound mad to me. Here's Stephen Colbert's take on it.

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