Sometime in 1040 for the Chinese invented gunpowder ever since then and
we've been using it for terrible things but what if we sent one of our 12
thousand 685 nukes to the moon you may be saying Charlie that's a crazy idea
who would want to nuke the moon well the answer is our loving government in 1958
the US Air Force created Project a119 this was a plan to detonate a nuke on
the moon obviously this didn't happen but what if it did how would the blast
affect us on earth I'm Charlie and today we're going to look at what if we nuked
the moon before we get into it why not subscribe and press the notification
bell too so let's go back to Project a119
in the 1950s the US Ames Soviet Union our were in a space race and frankly the
Soviet Union was crushing the USA they'd successfully sent their Sputnik
satellite into space so the American government thought it would be a good
idea to nuke the moon the government thought this would increase morale and
show off American firepower which seeing the moon blow up increase your morale I
don't think so thankfully this project was scrapped and
then declassified in 2000 they didn't cancel it because they were worried it
would harm the moon instead it was because of a fear of negative public
reaction but what a 50 megatons of TNT also known as a nuclear bomb did go off
on the moon so that you can get an idea of how much damage this would cause
check out her Oshima her road Schumer was a gigantic Japanese city before it
was destroyed by an atomic bomb well one you could be the equivalent of 3,800
Hiroshima bombs but amazingly for a moon nuke to actually affect earth you'd need
10 trillion megatons of TNT that is because the moon is three hundred and
eighty four thousand four hundred kilometers away from Earth if around 10
million megatons of TNT was used then there would be a gigantic impact on
earth the moon would be pushed out of the Earth's orbit and this would cause
lots of asteroids and meteors to smash into earth gravity would also change as
well as our water levels meaning our tides would flood all major cities by
the sea but it's still a good thing that project a one-one-nine did not go ahead
that's because it could have caused catastrophic radiation levels on the
moon right now in Hiroshima people are still
being born deformed because of the radiation from the atomic bomb that bomb
went off in the 1940s back in the space race the military had plans to colonize
the moon in 1967 of course this did not go ahead but they didn't know that so
back then they did not want to ruin the land they were planning to colonize the
moon is not protected by an ozone layer much like Earth is this leaves it open
to cosmic rays and solar flares which could negatively impact the planet this
means there is space radiation and detonating a nuke on the moon would
simply add to that radiation the moon has lots of craters because of
meteorites which have smashed into it so detonating in you could pretty much
cause such I can't it crater kind of like the ones that the moon already has
this crater would likely be around eight miles in diameter if it was detonated on
the lit side of the moon then your eye may be able to see it but if the nuke
went off on the dark side of annual crescent moon your eye would probably
see a blip of light for a few seconds but it's also a logistics nightmare if
you try and transport a nuclear bomb to the moon and the rocket carrying it
blows up on launch then you will damage the earth a lot in fact pretty much an
entire country would be ruined of course a nuke wouldn't blow up an
entire country like the USA but it would radiate at least 50% of it meaning
everyone would be very sick in the country you'd also obliterate your
launch facility wasting billions or trillions of dollars and if the rocket
blows up one it's already pretty high in the sky then you could cause an EMP this
is also known as an electromagnetic pulse this would disable all electronics
causing an economic crash and technologies to fail telephone and
Internet signals would cease and streetlights would be blown out hard
drives and digital electronics for miles would also be fried
so while detonating a nuclear have on the moon may not cause too much trouble
to earth we still should not try it too much could go wrong and it's also pretty
pointless instead we should focus on trying to get to the moon and build a
lunar base but now it's time to make your voice heard votes in the poll in
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