Shoot the Moon - With a nuke nonetheless

[Scudbuster]

Back in the cold war days, the U.S. developed plans to hit the Moon with a nuke:

http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2012/1...oon/?hpt=hp_c1

[Wounded Bear]

The military considered the moon high ground so they wanted to be able to reach it with nukes?

I'm glad they finally decided not to do that just to make a point to the Soviets.