Today: Iraq

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Using the Moon as an Earth Defense Measure is not that far fetched. People at one time just visiting the moon was an impossible dream. They also said the world was flat.

As for nukes on the moon, I dunno. Me personally, I think it's possible. However, it is more probable to have something else. I mean, lets face it. We have Star Wars Star Trek scary next level sci fi weapons now. Magnetic pulse guns. I saw one of those on the discovery channel once. When fired at an old water tank, it ripped it self into pieces, twisting and screeching metal that looked as if it's alive. I am not sure how it works completely, but from watching Buck Rogers as a kid, I can tell you, it looked like something out of a cheesy Saturday Serial.

Establishing a base now means making a stronghold later, the ultimate fear and propoganda. Let's face it. The unwashed masses won't care what's on the Moon or how it works, they will only know there is something Terrible™ up there that could possibly blow them to smithereens. Good way to keep folks in line. The Fear Factor alone would be enough for America to keep most of the world in line and playing nice and doing stuff our way. Sorry, don't wish to offend, but lets face it, that's pretty much how it is. And while the Moon would make a good launch point for said future weapons... I doubt that it would be as easy to return fire. Which would make the Moon a powerful defensive measure that would not be easily countered. Sure, you could take out much of our defense measures here, blow up our air craft carriers and toast our missile defense network, but that don't mean much when our Giant Floating Death Laser Eye in the Sky™ comes and leaves a giant smoking crater where your country used to be.

Sure. All this seems far fetched now. But then again, when I was a kid, most of the stuff we use today and never think about how amazing it is was pretty far fetched as well.

Don't say it will never happen.