Nuking the Moon

Why did the US intelligence services fail so spectacularly to know about the Soviet Union's nuclear capabilities following World War II? As Vince Houghton, historian and curator of the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC, shows us, that disastrous failure came just a few years after the Manhattan Project's intelligence team had penetrated the Third Reich and knew every detail of the Nazi ‘s plan for an atomic bomb. What changed and what went wrong? And why did the idea to weaponize bats never work? Or what about the idea to turn a cat into a listening device?

Vince takes us on a wild tour of missions and schemes that almost happened, but were ultimately deemed too dangerous, expensive, ahead of their time, or even certifiably insane

Written in a conversational upbeat, humorous style with loads of pop-culture references. It is both terrifying and hilarious, but always riveting. This is a unique story of a whole bunch of really, really bad ideas (and a few intriguing ones that just didn't work out)

So, if you are you interested in the cold war, historical oddities and espionage. Then this book is for you.