In March of 1959, the US Army issued a top-secret document titled Project Horizon to the United States government.
Tensions were rising amidst the ongoing Space Race between the US and the Soviets, and the document called for the creation of a lunar outpost that was of critical importance for the armed forces and the interests of the United States on the Moon.
Soon, a study to determine the feasibility of constructing a military and scientific Moonbase inhabited by 12 men was set in motion, and it was required to be powered by nuclear reactors, making it self-sufficient and equipped with unguided low-yield atomic warheads to defend it from Soviet incursions.
Several top engineers, including Wernher von Braun, were tasked to overview the project, but when the US learned that the USSR intended to celebrate the October Revolution in 1967 on their own Moonbase, the clock began ticking...
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