The US once had a secret plan to nuke the moon

National Nuclear Security Administration (public domain)

In an attempt to catch up in the Space Race, the United States devised a plan to detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon.

Project A119 epitomizes Cold War logic. Also known by the harmless-sounding “A Study of Lunar Research Flights,” A119 was a 1958 Air Force plan to drop a nuclear bomb on the moon. Th…