{"id":4760,"date":"2011-02-19T07:00:14","date_gmt":"2011-02-19T15:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=4760"},"modified":"2011-11-08T22:53:44","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T06:53:44","slug":"carl-sagan-once-was-involved-in-a-plan-to-nuke-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/02\/carl-sagan-once-was-involved-in-a-plan-to-nuke-the-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Carl Sagan Once Was Involved in a Plan to Nuke the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/carl-sagan-nuke-the-moon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4761\" title=\"carl-sagan-nuke-the-moon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/carl-sagan-nuke-the-moon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/carl-sagan-nuke-the-moon.jpg 558w, https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/carl-sagan-nuke-the-moon-340x189.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>##EMBED##<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The United States Once Planned on Nuking the Moon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/10\/the-united-states-once-planned-on-nuking-the-moon\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here for Source and to Learn More About the United States&#8217; Plan to Nuke the Moon<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Text Version<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A young Carl Sagan was one of the scientists hired in the U.S.&#8217;s Cold War plan to drop a nuclear bomb on the moon.\u00a0 Specifically, Sagan was hired to study how exactly the mushroom cloud would expand on the moon, so that they could make sure it would be clearly visible from Earth, which was the whole point of the project.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>##EMBED## Click Here for Source and to Learn More About the United States&#8217; Plan to Nuke the Moon Text Version A young Carl Sagan was one of the scientists hired in the U.S.&#8217;s Cold War plan to drop a nuclear bomb on the moon.\u00a0 Specifically, Sagan was hired to study how exactly the mushroom cloud would expand on the moon, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[911,1274],"class_list":["post-4760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-bizarre-facts","tag-carl-sagan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4760"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7097,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4760\/revisions\/7097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}