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Project Horizon and the Cold War moon base, the US Army’s 1959 plan for a nuclear powered lunar outpost and atomic defense

In 1959, the U.S. Army quietly drafted Project Horizon, a detailed blueprint for a 12 man lunar outpost powered by nuclear reactors and built to hold the strategic high ground. This story traces how ...
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Project Horizon, the secret US Army plan to build a nuclear armed moon base during the Cold War

In 1959, the US Army quietly studied an extraordinary plan to build a self-sustaining military base on the Moon, complete with nuclear power and weapons. Project Horizon reveals how Cold War fear, ...