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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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When the US Army Wanted to Build a Moon Base

Project Horizon was shuttered due to cost overruns. Had it succeeded, it would have militarized the lunar surface as well as the space domain. The Cold War between the United States and the Soviet ...