PLANS FOR THE IGNITION OF A NUCLEAR BOMB ON THE MOON

Documents were published which prove that in 1958 the Soviet leaders had decided to develop plans for the ignition of a nuclear bomb on the moon. The bomb with the explosive power of the Hiroshima bomb should be sent on a rocket to the moon as a demonstration of the Russian power during the period of the Cold War. The plan was abandoned because because of the worry that it might come to an explosion during the start. It was exactly the time when Nikita Khrushchev, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, became also Chairman of the Council of ministers.