Declassified US documents show that. planned nuclear tests in the moon.
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| Declassified US documents show that. planned nuclear tests in the moon. |
According to declassify documents related to the Apollo 11 mission, the US Pentagon intended to use the Moon as a center of espionage and polygon spatial tests for nuclear explosions.
According denounced the Italian journalist Vittorio Zucconi, "behind the bright smile of John Kennedy gloomy and dark face of the moon went down, our natural satellite, the Pentagon wanted to become a vigilante in space and ground nuclear exercises."
The statement is clear access to declassified documents about the so called 'Project A119', organized by the United States Air Force, which planned the militarization of the Moon during the Cold War.
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| Declassified US documents show that. planned nuclear tests in the moon. |
By the year 1959, the Italian physicist Leonard Reiffel, specializing in nuclear physics and colleague Enrico Fermi in the construction of the first nuclear power plant, was invited to participate in the 'Project A119'. By then, both the Nevada sky like New Mexico, were shaken weekly by nuclear explosions in the atmosphere.
At 90 years old, Reiffel confessed before he died he warned Pentagon officials on technological inability to send any loaded with nuclear weapons aboard a spacecraft to the moon in 1959. However, the scientist said, the plan proved too attractive to the military, who continued on with their purpose.
"It was a global project to monitor the Earth from the Moon. The project involved the installation of stations listen, telemetry and observations controlled by permanent staff who have taken to the moon in space shuttles. At the same time it had implemented a program of improvements and miniaturization of thermonuclear weapons and increase the transport capacity of spacecraft, to make the dream of nuclear tests in the moon really, "says the journalist.
While the Moon received 12 US astronauts between 1969 and 1972, the plans for militarization ended resigned to the development of satellites currently fly orbit.
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