What if you had the power to blow up an entire nation at the touch of a button? What would you do with that power? Apparently the US wanted to use it blow up our nearest celestial body! I'm sure it made sense to someone, somewhere at the time, but hindsight can be a bitch. Why did the US wanna blow it up? Find out in this episode. Hosted by Dave Zwolenski and Matthew (Redd) Peterson.

Why did the U.S. want to nuke the moon?

"We Fact Up" was born out of the notion that before the internet existed people would have to actually try and work things out for themselves when asked a question. Like, "what does 'O.K.' stand for?" or "who invented the high five?". Listeners send in their questions, the gang then try to work the answer out without the help of Google. After a lot of discussion and general stupidity, the team then see how close (or how far off in most cases) they were to the answer - hopefully to hilarious, or mildly amusing, results.

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Why did the U.S. want to nuke the moon?

Why did the U.S. want to nuke the moon?