Nuking the Moon: And Other Intelligence Schemes and Military Plots Left on the Drawing Board - Vince Houghton
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The International Spy Museum’s Historian takes us on a wild tour of missions and schemes that almost happened, but were ultimately deemed too dangerous, expensive, ahead of their time, or even certifiably insane.
“Compulsively readable laugh out loud history.” (Mary Roach, New York Times best-selling author of Grunt and Stiff)
In 1958, the US Air Force nuked the moon as a show of military force. In 1967, the CIA sent live cats to spy on the Soviet government. In 1942, the British built a torpedo-proof aircraft carrier out of an iceberg. Of course, none of these things ever actually happened. But in Nuking the Moon, intelligence historian Vince Houghton proves that abandoned plans can be just as illuminating - and every bit as entertaining - as the ones that made it.
Vividly capturing the fascinating stories of how 21 plans from WWII and the Cold War went from conception, planning, and testing to cancellation, Houghton explores what happens when innovation meets desperation: For every plan as good as D-Day, there’s a scheme to strap bombs to bats or dig a spy tunnel underneath the Soviet embassy. Along the way, he reveals what each one tells us about 20th-century history, the art of spycraft, military strategy, and famous figures like JFK, Castro, and Churchill. By turns terrifying and hilarious - but always riveting - this is the unique story of history left on the drawing board.
©2019 Vince Houghton (P)2019 Penguin Audio
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| Creation Date: | Sat, 06 May 2023 23:27:04 +0200 |
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This post has 5 comments with rating of 5/5
May 6th, 2023
Thanks for sharing
May 6th, 2023
I remember reading about that aircraft carrying iceberg plan about a million yrs ago.
Covert cats sounds like a great idea - unless the Soviets start using those distracting laser pointers.
May 7th, 2023
It’s almost as if you can’t trust the ‘experts’…
May 7th, 2023
Remember training our trusting friends the porpoises to let us strap explosives to their bodies and then teaching them to detonate their payload when they reached a target ship? Humans are a failed experiment in evolution.
May 8th, 2023
Great book until I started choking on man-made global warming.
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