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We had to do something very quickly to show the world that we were really the big kids on the block, the Soviets had just gotten lucky, that the United States was truly the country that was the leader in the world in science and technology. Which brings us to the fact that the U. The logic doesn't necessarily follow from A to B, but that was the decision that was made — mainly by the U.
And that would be to detonate at least one, perhaps multiple, thermonuclear weapons on the moon so that the whole world — at least the ones that were facing the moon at that point in time — would be able to see how powerful America was. And this program wasn't something that was kind of thrown out there and then some junior scientists in the Pentagon basement said "I'll do this. These were not whack-a-doodle scientists.
These were big brains. These are people who revolutionized science, not just in the West, but in the world, during this time, and they bought into this idea. They said, "Okay, this may be far-fetched, this may not be science, but we can turn this into a scientific understanding, we can make good science out of this.
They decided: let's investigate this program, let's figure out how we can do it and let's see if it's feasible or not. What would have happened had hydrogen bombs detonated on the moon's surface? Well, that's where the air force was very disappointed to hear that you would not get a standard mushroom cloud. That's what the air force wanted, right … a beautiful mushroom cloud there on the edge of the moon that everyone could see.
They wanted to shock and awe. And they wanted the stereotypical kind of icon of a thermonuclear weapon. Despite how horrible these weapons are, it's awe-inspiring. But mushroom clouds only exist in dense atmospheres like here on Earth. It wouldn't be what the air force wanted, [which] was this kind of symbolic "we're bigger and badder than you are" mushroom cloud on the moon.
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