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Originally Posted by zimmy
Yeah, the idea that it would have "blown up the moon" is pretty ridiculous. I imagine the idea was to detonate it where it could be seen, but wouldn't directly hurt people. We detonated them on Earth regularly and I think Earth is still here. Sounds like the journalist blew it when they came up with that title.
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Yeah, we were testing everything back then above ground in the western deserts and on Pacific atolls. I kind of doubt that the Soviets were totally in the dark about us having and testing nukes. How much of a flash would even 5 megatons make from a quarter million miles away?
I'd liked to have been a fly on the wall when some Pentagon boob ran this one by Ike.
