Nuking the Moon - And Other Intelligence Schemes and Military Plots Best Left on the Drawing Board (Paperback, Main)

"Compulsively readable laugh out loud history." Mary Roach Bomb-carrying bats. Poisoned flower arrangements. Cigars laced with mind-altering drugs. Listening devices implanted into specially-trained cats. A torpedo-proof aircraft carrier made out of ice and sawdust. And a CIA plan to detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon ... just because. In Nuking the Moon, Vince Houghton, Historian and Curator at the International Spy Museum, collects the most inspired, implausible and downright bizarre military intelligence schemes that never quite made it off the drawing board. From the grandly ambitious to the truly devious, they illuminate a new side of warfare, revealing how a combination of desperation and innovation led not only to daring missions and brilliant technological advances, but to countless plans and experiments that failed spectacularly. Alternatively terrifying and hilarious, and combining archival research with newly-conducted interviews, these twenty-six chapters reveal not only what might have happened, but also what each one tells us about the history and people around it. If 'military intelligence' makes you think of James Bond and ingenious exploding gadgets ... get ready for the true story.

General

Imprint:	Profile Books Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2019
First published:	2019
Authors:	Vince Houghton
Dimensions:	196 x 128 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	304
Edition:	Main
ISBN-13:	978-1-78816-330-9
Categories:	Books > Computing & IT > Social & legal aspects of computing > Privacy & data protection Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > Espionage & secret services Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945 Books > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945
LSN:	1-78816-330-3
Barcode:	9781788163309

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