The United States Planned To Detonate A Nuclear Bomb On The Moon
While we’ve seen many of the strangest theories from the space race era on this list, we must admit this isn’t inaccurate. Some U.S. Scientists DID have a plan to test out nuclear weapons on the moon. This was part of Project A119 and meant to technically do two things. The first was that it would answer mysteries about planetary astronomy and geology. It would be detonated on the surface and bright enough to be faintly visible to people on Earth with the naked eye. It was going to be a show of force. The idea never took place for several reasons. First, it was felt that the risks outweighed the benefits. Second, it is not exactly easy to blow something up with a nuke on the Moon. You need oxygen for this stuff to really work as it does on Earth. Without it, the explosion would be quite minimal.
Where Do We Find This Stuff? Here Are Our Sources:
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)