Project A119: The U.S. Military's Plan to NUKE the MOON

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Intro song:
Ship of Theseus-Dustin Beck
Prod. David Southern https://tinyurl.com/David-Southern
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In this episode, we dive into one of the most jaw-dropping declassified plans in American military history: Project A119, the U.S. Air Force's actual Cold War proposal to detonate a nuclear bomb on the Moon. No, this isn’t sci-fi. This was a real, government-funded plan to create a visible lunar explosion as a flex against the Soviet Union—and it gets weirder from there.

We unpack:
-The Cold War paranoia that sparked this madness
-The real science behind nuking a celestial body
-The involvement of a young Carl Sagan
-The ethical nightmare of space contamination
-Why it was (thankfully) scrapped

It’s a mix of serious history, unhinged military ambition, and scientific curiosity—all orbiting the most insane question ever asked in a Pentagon boardroom: "What if we just nuked the Moon?"