They sure did think of doing some insane things with nuclear weapons in the 50s and 60s. I love how the idea was to ‘boost morale’ of the public. FUCK YEAH! We nuked the MOON!! USA!

Off the scale insecurity, bordering on mass insanity. Some guys across the ocean might win a pointless race to a barren and useless land, let’s fire a gigantic toxic phallus shaped object into this land creating vast amounts of pollution and achieving nothing.