Nuking the Moon
The International Spy Museum s Historian takes us on a wild tour of missions, schemes, and weapons that were planned, but ultimately deemed too dangerous, expensive, ahead of their time, or even certifiably insaneIn 1958, the US Air Force nuked the moon as a show of military might In 1967, the CIA implanted recording devices in live cats and sent them into Russia as spies In 1942, the British built an aircraft carrier made of ice and sawdust, impervious to German torpedoes Of course, none of these things ever happened.But in Nuking the Moon, intelligence historian Vincent Houghton shows us that what didn t happen is just as illuminating, and every bit as engrossing WWII and the Cold War were periods of desperation and innovation, a combination that led to brilliant missions and technological advances But for every Argo or Operation Mincemeat, there were countless abandoned plans Some are laughable, like the US Navy s plan to train pigeons to pilot missiles some are implausible, like the Kennedy administration s plan to build a command center 4,000 feet underground and some are legitimately terrifying, like the cornucopia of US plans to justify attacking Cuba Through extensive archival research and expert interviews, Vincent Houghton has dug up than thirty of these fascinating abandoned plans, and recounts the story behind each one in vivid, captivating detail, revealing not only what might have happened, but also what each one tells us about the history and people around it The first ever book to bring these historical episodes together, this wholly original work alternatively terrifying and hilarious, but always riveting is the unique story of history left on the drawing board. Best Read Kindle ePUB Nuking the Moon By Vince Houghton – kino-fada.fr
- 20 May 2017 Vince Houghton
- Hardcover
- 304 pages
- 0525505172
- Vince Houghton
- Nuking the Moon