Vince Houghton
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.
Articles From This Author
Why the Air Force Almost Blasted the Moon with an H-Bomb
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 United States government. But in 1958, as the Cold War space race was heating up, the U.S. Air Force launched just such an ...read more