The US planned to blow up the moon with a nuclear bomb during the cold war as to show of strength,a British media report said recently.
American military chiefs alleged devised the secret project "a study of Lunar research flights" or project A119 - in the hope that then Soviet Union would intimidated by viewing the nuclear flash from the earth.
it would have given the US a much needed morale boost after the Russian successfully launched Sputnik in 1957, according to physicist Leonard Reiffel, was involved in the project.
The Us would have used an atom bomb , because a hydrogen bomb would have to be too heavy.
Military officials however, reportedly abandoned the idea, which would have taken place in 1959, because of the fear that it would have an adverse effect on the Earth should the explosion fail.
