Talk:Project A119

message: It might be useful to revise the article at some point. Firstly the US was not the only country to consider this concept. The Soviet Union had something called Project E-4 which actually got to the mock-up stage before it was canceled.
Secondly the idea of having the first (unmanned) spacecraft to the moon leave an obvious sign of its arrival appears in early science fiction, the versions I have seen feature impact probes loaded with white paint or magnesium flash powder.Graham1973 (talk) 01:57, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Rumors of soviets bombing the moon began as early as 1957, as confirmed by this article (that also contains many details now related to Project A119, such as the explosion on the dark side). --viniciusmc 18:21, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Context

message: The Post-Apollo 11 proposal to detonate a nuclear device on the moon looks to be a further area for research. For one thing, this is clearly the inspiration for Malzbergs, The Falling Astronauts which features an Apollo mission to carry out just this experiment.Graham1973 (talk) 08:12, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The proposal was pretty widely reported at the time (Google News is full of the stuff) but there's nothing really in the reports beyond what's mentioned here. Latham has a few books on lunar seismology though, which might provide something. GRAPPLE X 17:40, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  I found something, but it's in a very dubious source, Secrets of our spaceship Moon (Found on Google Books) by a certain Don Wilson mentions the Latham proposal and states that it was for a farside blast. The problem is I cannot look inside to get a proper cite or even to find the authors sources.Graham1973 (talk) 01:18, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: The Gary Latham Proposal

message: A see also section to Aristarchus (crater) should be included, as a natural source of radioactive decay gas products on the moon already exists.
Also, a see also to Giordano Bruno (crater), Transient lunar phenomenon and in the last section on explosions in lunar science, well some info on natural meteor impacts being visible from the earth wouldn't go amiss. like the earth visible ~ 15 tons of TNT energy impact last year, september 2013, linked below and the less energetic event in March 2013 ~ 5 tons of TNT. See more lunar craters.
*http://mnras.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/02/19/mnras.stu083.full
*2 videos & quote "This is the largest, brightest impact we have ever observed on the Moon," Professor Jose Madiedo, of the University of Huelva in south-western Spain" ->
*March 2013 event http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/350370 
*Sept 11 2013 event http://sservi.nasa.gov/articles/bright-explosion-on-the-moon-2/ &  http://rt.com/news/biggest-meteor-impact-moon-549/
*No doubt there will be plenty more!
*All these events makes one wonder how - under a scenario that a nation secretly flew a nuclear warhead into the moon and didn't declare it, how would the rest of the world be able to tell for sure it was a deliberate event and not just a typical meteoroid impact? As far as I know, there'd be no double flash of light that we use on earth as the identifying characteristic of a nuclear explosion in our atmosphere, as there is practically zero atmosphere on the moon for the double flash mechanism to form. 
*So how would we discriminate from the two events? There's also no system of seismic stations(CTBTO) on the moon like we have on earth to detect underground nuclear detonations either.
86.46.175.111 (talk) 04:12, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
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message: I'm looking for a source from when the entry article was new to Wikipedia. The source discussed the unpresidented addition of a WP article that was supported only by primary sources. Thanks in advance. Johnvr4 (talk) 17:50, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
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message: we must find a nuke to drop on the US 82.7.134.74 (talk) 16:24, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
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