The US Plan for War on the Moon @SideQuestYT

Uploaded September 2020 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

The United States of America, as renowned paragon of democracy and defender of the Free World, has always been on the lookout for any threats to its serene hegemony... even from places one wouldn't suspect. That's exactly the case with the US plan for waging war on the Moon, conceived during the height of the Cold War.

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Further Reading:

Lunar Colonies and Nuking the Moon: Science Fiction, Cold War Anxiety, and the U.S. Space Program by Stephen Grundmanis - uvic.ca/humanities/history/assets/docs/Honours%20Thesis%20-%20Stephen%20Grundmanis%2020171.pdf
Project Horizon by Arthur Trudeau - https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu//NSAEBB/NSAEBB479/docs/EBB-Moon01_sm.pdf
A Study of Lunar Research Flights by L. Reiffel - https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu//NSAEBB/NSAEBB479/docs/EBB-Moon02.pdf

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