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Trump might like this: they originally wanted to explode nuclear bombs on the moon.

Should we nuke the moon? Yes, the moon where men grown on trees, Canberra Times, Ian Warden, 28 July 19“…….In the Greenwich Observatory’s new book The Moon: A Celebration of Our Celestial Neighbour, we learn that during the Cold War America came close to performing a nuclear bomb test on the moon.

It’s just as well that Donald Trump doesn’t read books and so is unlikely to find out about this moon-bruising idea, an idea that would surely appeal to his teeny-weeny mind.

There was active planning of the moon bombing (it was called “Project A119”) so that, visible to the whole world, it would have been a demonstration of US military might to send a chill up the spine of the USSR.

In the end, the bombing didn’t go ahead because the White House was worried that the American people, perhaps with affectionate feelings towards the moon (as reflected in popular sentimental love songs like By the Light of the Silvery Moon) would be upset by an act of cruelty towards our cuddly, faithful, silvery celestial neighbour.

One wonders if today’s American people, brutalised and the balances of their minds disturbed by the Trump presidency, would oppose a new Project A119, perhaps designed to remind those pesky Iranians of US military might.

One can just hear a rally of thousands of Trump’s patriotic “core” admirers, revved up by him, chanting “Nuke the moon! Nuke the moon!”. https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6293989/should-we-nuke-the-moon-yes-the-moon-where-men-grown-on-trees/?cs=14246

July 29, 2019 - Posted by | general

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