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Originally Posted by yearntolearn
The idea was to shock and awe the Soviet Union, and everybody else, with a massive display of American nuclear might. What better demonstration than an atomic nuclear explosion on our closest celestial neighbor? According to the reports, the flash would've been visible to the naked eye on Earth."
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At most, it would have been a tiny, very brief flash. This is nearly a quarter million miles away, remember, and there is no atmosphere, so unless it is blown right on the surface, there will be minimal blast effect.
I think the main reactions would have been "That's IT???" and "Did you see anything?"
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Originally Posted by novaderrik
he said nuking the moon would be a bad idea because without it's gravity, the earth would be all screwed up like in the overly bad remake of "The Time Machine" that he'd just seen on cable that weekend"
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Please don't call that piece of ... garbage a "remake." It had very little to do with either the original story or the George Pal movie of that name. But that is a great example of the ideas this type of nonsense fosters. (For those who mercifully have not been exposed, low yield nukes somehow split the moon. A million years later the moon looks like a pie with a slice removed. Arggh. The pain, the pain!)