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Carl Sagan Was On US Team To Nuke the Moon

Posted by timothy on from the only-a-light-nuking-around-the-edges dept.

First time accepted submitter novakom writes "Apparently during the cold war, one fall-back position the U.S. was looking at to ensure mutual assured destruction was to put nukes on the moon. This would ensure that the U.S. could retaliate against even an effective first strike by the Russians. The first step, of course, would be to detonate a nuke on the moon. And yes, Carl Sagan was on the team (and apparently leaked the info!)"

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  1. News for Nerds, Stuff from Twelve Years Ago by Swampash · · Score: 5, Funny

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2000/may/14/spaceexploration.theobserver

    Slashdot editors, kill yourselves.

  2. Re:War; War never changes by CapOblivious2010 · · Score: 5, Funny

    WTF man? Of course he was talking about going some where else with sufficient resources and habitable conditions. You might as well have assumed he meant we should set up a colony on the surface of the sun for all the idiocy you've attributed to him.

    As long as you stayed inside during the day, and only went out at night, a solar colony might be workable.