Send us Fan Mail This week, we’re investigating Project A119—a top-secret U.S. Air Force plan. In the late 1950s, the Cold War was heating up, the Space Race was slipping away, and America’s top military minds came up with the ultimate, infallible solution to flex on the Soviet Union: they really did ask, “What if we dropped a nuclear bomb on the lunar surface just so everyone on Earth could see the giant mushroom cloud?” The project was led by a genius named Leonard Reiffel and ...
