Dr. Vince Houghton, historian and curator at the International Spy Museum, is the author of Nuking the Moon and Other Intelligence Schemes and Military Plots Left on the Drawing Board.
Detonating a thermonuclear weapon on the moon? It sounds like the bizarro scheme of a deranged comic-book villain—not a project initiated inside the U.S. government. But in 1958, as the Cold War space race was heating up, the U.S. Air Force launched just such an endeavor. Called ...read more