{"id":12193,"date":"2012-11-27T10:13:28","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T16:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=12193"},"modified":"2012-11-28T09:42:44","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T15:42:44","slug":"wherein-life-imitates-frank-j-before-frank-j","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/27\/wherein-life-imitates-frank-j-before-frank-j\/","title":{"rendered":"Wherein Life Imitates Frank J. Before Frank J."},"content":{"rendered":"

Revealed: How the U.S. planned to blow up the MOON with a nuclear bomb to win Cold War bragging rights over Soviet Union<\/a>:<\/p>\n

It may sound like a plot straight out of a science fiction novel, but a U.S. mission to blow up the moon with a nuke was very real in the 1950s.<\/p>\n

At the height of the space race, the U.S. considered detonating an atom bomb on the moon as a display of America’s Cold War muscle.<\/p>\n

The secret project, innocuously titled ‘A Study of Lunar Research Flights’ and nicknamed ‘Project A119,’ was never carried out.<\/p>\n

. . . .<\/p>\n

Under the scenario, a missile carrying a small nuclear device was to be launched from an undisclosed location and travel 238,000 miles to the moon, where it would be detonated upon impact.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The headline is a bit misleading, as the plan was to detonate a single atom bomb, not to destroy the moon.<\/p>\n

But this secret now revealed makes me wonder how good Frank J.’s sources are, as he wrote the famous essay A Realistic Plan for World Peace a.k.a Nuke the Moon<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Now the world will be pretty convinced that America is frick\u2019n nuts and just looking for a fight, but we need to really ingrain it into everyone\u2019s conscious so that no one will ever even contemplate crossing us. This requires making good use of our nukes. I know, nukes can kill millions of people, but they sure aren\u2019t doing anyone any good just sitting around. I mean, how many years has it been since we last dropped a bomb on someone? No one even thinks we\u2019ll actually use one now. Of course, using nukes shouldn\u2019t be done haphazardly; all uses have to be well planned out because the explosions are so cool looking that we\u2019ll want to give the press plenty of notice so they can get pictures of the mushroom cloud from all sorts of different angles. But what to nuke? Well, usually the idea is populated cities, but, by the beliefs of my morally superior religion, killing is wrong. So why can\u2019t we be more creative than nuking people. My idea is to nuke the moon; just say we thought we saw moon people or something. There is no one actually there to kill (unless we time it poorly) and everyone in the world could see the results. And all the other countries would exclaim, \u201cHoly @$#%! They are nuking the moon! America has gone insane! I better go eat at McDonald\u2019s before they think I don\u2019t like them.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, we all thought Frank J. was crazy or just being humorous. It makes you wonder what else Frank J. has the inside dope on. Is or ever was Glenn Reynolds<\/a> a puppy-blender<\/a>?<\/p>\n

(Link via Ace’s place<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/font> It looks like fellow old-timer Stephen Green got here first<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Revealed: How the U.S. planned to blow up the MOON with a nuclear bomb to win Cold War bragging rights over Soviet Union: It may sound like a plot straight out of a science fiction novel, but a U.S. mission to blow up the moon with a nuke was very real in the 1950s. At […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12193"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12209,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12193\/revisions\/12209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}