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A search of "Doomsday Tapes" in the Vanderbilt news archive gets you a report on civil defense films being produced for the government by the "Nuke the Moon" physicist, Leonard Reiffel (1927-2017). He collaborated with Enrico Fermi, Carl Sagan, and members of Operation Paperclip. Deputy director of Apollo program who led Project A119, a top-secret plan to detonate a nuke on the Moon.



Leonard Reiffel (EE ’47, M.S. ’48, Ph.D. ’53) invented the Telestrator for use as a teaching tool for his WTTW science show. Then someone had another bright idea—to use it in sports and weather broadcasting, too. Since then Reiffel’s device has helped analysts highlight sports plays, medical scans, and even images from the OJ Simpson trial.

Leonard Reiffel’s many achievements as a physicist included two entirely unrelated things — one a down-to-earth development that changed sportscasting and another a far-fetched idea that, had it happened, might have changed the course of history.

In sports broadcasting, Dr. Reiffel invented the Telestrator, which allows announcers to draw lines and circles on a television screen to show how a play developed.

But even more compelling was his role in a top-secret study for the Air Force that asked a simple question:

How about blowing up a nuclear bomb on or near the moon and seeing what happens?

Soon after the Soviet Union launched the Sputnik satellite into orbit in 1957, sending jitters throughout the United States that it was losing the space race, the Air Force posed the hypothetical question to a group of scientists, Dr. Reiffel among them.

Project A119, as the study was called, secretly examined the scientific and military benefits of launching an intercontinental ballistic missile carrying a nuclear bomb the size of the one dropped on Hiroshima and detonating it on or near the surface of the moon. Whether that was even possible in the late 1950s is highly questionable.

A lunar detonation, the study said, would serve military goals by supplying information about the “detection of nuclear device testing in space and concerning the capability of nuclear weapons for space warfare.”

As for the political impact, Dr. Reiffel, who was then the manager of physics research at the Armour Research Foundation, a laboratory that was part of the Illinois Institute of Technology, wrote in the panel’s report in 1959 that “positive effects would accrue to the nation first performing such a feat as a demonstration of advanced technological capability.”

Spoiler alert: The plan was never executed and the moon survived, intact, to host six Apollo moon landings.

Decades later, Dr. Reiffel revealed that the Air Force had been interested in staging a surprise lunar explosion, and that its goal was propaganda. “The foremost intent was to impress the world with the prowess of the United States,” he told The New York Times in 2000. “It was a P.R. device, without question, in the minds of the people from the Air Force.”

Dr. Reiffel, who later helped NASA identify touchdown sites on the moon for the Apollo lunar module, died on April 15 at a hospital in Chicago. He was 89. Romayne Rickhoff, Mr. Reiffel’s longtime assistant, said the cause was complications of pancreatic cancer.

Dr. Reiffel (it’s pronounced like rifle) was an inventor with dozens of patents, but the Telestrator resonated the most.

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During his varied career, Dr. Reiffel worked for a year at the University of Chicago for the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Enrico Fermi; wrote a novel, “The Contaminant” (1978), about a biomedical attack by rogue American officers against the Soviet Union; delivered radio commentaries on science that won a Peabody Award; consulted for the Apollo program’s scientific staff; and ran a company that developed teleconferencing products.

But the work he did at Project A119, where his hypothesizing yielded no tangible results, remains a Strangelovian reminder of Cold War tensions. In 2000, he recalled in the journal Nature when he and the others on his staff were asked to assess how the lunar surface and its chemistry would react to a nuclear bomb.

“The cost to science of destroying the pristine lunar environment,” he wrote, “did not seem of concern to our sponsors — but it certainly was to us, as I made clear at the time.”

NY Times (archived)

Sagan breached security by revealing US work on a lunar bomb project


Politics are going to change a lot very soon when ET joins the circus. Who would you vote for?



What is there to stop Deus ex Elon Musk from orchestrating a fake AI-generated mission to Mars in the coming years? Well-paid actors could be hired for the clandestine job, then terminated and replaced by AI versions. Several thousand of them signed-up several years ago. Corporations could generate any reality they want soon. And given our corrupt worldwide media, who would stop them? How many Dow Jones and S&P 500 AI-generated probabilities are available to them for magnified profits? 

Exhibit X:






What happened to the USAF's ability to ship cargo via efficient and fast UAP? Is this to be the cover story? Polluting chemical rockets are not the answer. Its a devolved technology.


U.S. Air Force Buys Into SpaceX Point-to-Point Starship Delivery Service


Could this possibly be a hint that SpaceX might be given classified anti-gravity tech soon by USMIL corporations, then spinning it as "new & improved liquid fuel rocket power!" as the cover story? Will Musk be the new hidden Nazi hero Wernher von Braun? Bring the world open anti-gravity tech in 10 years to save it? LOL.


SpaceX's plan to fly you across the globe in 30 minutes


Elon’s Twitter ("X") acquisition, SpaceX & NeuraLink + global infusion of Peter Thiel's "Palantir Technologies Inc. ++ Space Force are somehow working in tandem?

All the high-end tech companies and military branches have some type of cross-pollenization for efficiency reasons. A better question perhaps is who isn't connected in this vast layered web?

The investment of ALL the space based tech is for the AI hivemind control grid (aka global information grid as inner qualities/emotions are digitized & networked)... for the "We're going to Mars!" is just to lure talent into engineering & maintaining the hivemind infrastructure.



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