A recently declassified report by foreign media shows that a research program funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), had planned a nuclear attack on the moon to find a possible metal on the moon that weighed 100,000 times lighter than steel, but was about the same hardness as steel. Under the plan, scientists believe there could be such a peculiar metal inside the moon that if it were to be obtained, it would only be possible to rely on nuclear weapons to blast open a tunnel to the interior of the moon.
A declassified report obtained by the British media outlet The Sun shows that the AATIP program was secretly run between 2007 and 2012, costing millions of dollars. The program is engaged in some strange-looking, even somewhat incredible research projects, such as invisibility cloaks, anti-gravity devices, through-passable wormholes, interstellar gates, negative energy, high-frequency gravitational wave communication, warp-speed drive, and dark energy, etc. These strange terms currently only exist in Hollywood science fiction movies, but they are somewhat intriguing to become serious research content for scientists.
Of course, the United States did not attempt a nuclear attack on the moon in the end, on the contrary, according to the latest Artemis plan, NASA plans to send 3 human astronauts to the moon by 2025, and plans to establish a long-term residence on the moon.
Since the current interest in lunar exploration is increasingly strong, and many countries, including China, have also formulated long-term plans for manned moon landings, the most urgent thing for the United States is not to go to the moon to find those "precious metals" that may not exist, but to send Americans to the moon again before other countries. NASA's new director Bill Nelson once held a photo of the Chinese Mars rover Zhu Rong in the US Congress, and carefully claimed that it was necessary to increase funding, otherwise, the United States could be overtaken by China in areas such as manned aerospace.
However, the United States does have a tradition of investing in some strange projects, such as the famous Blue Book Project, which we know as the famous Blue Book Project, which was maintained by the United States Air Force, which lasted for 17 years between 1952 and 1969, and collected 12,618 reports of UFO sightings, the largest officially sponsored UFO research project to date, although its results are unknown, but only for these large number of eyewitness reports. It is a great asset in itself.
In 2021, the United States once released a UFO video taken from a fighter jet by an Air Force pilot, which showed a UFO flying at a very fast speed and then suddenly turning, completely violating the laws of physics. In another video, a UFO speeds and then suddenly disappears, also at odds with the laws of physics as we know it, all of which, while unexplained, are already incalculable in their own right.
So, even if the Americans didn't put into practice their plans for a nuclear attack on the moon, we believe they did.