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Before Neil Armstrong, the U.S. hoped to land a nuke on the moon
During the Cold War, American military chiefs devised a plan to launch a nuclear attack on the moon, according to declassified documents from 1959. The intent of the scrapped mission was to intimidate Soviet leaders, though the moon would have been fine, project leader Leonard Reiffel said recently. Any blast "would have been microscopic, so to speak. It would have been, I think, essentially invisible from the Earth, even with a good telescope," Reiffel said.

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