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That's not true at all. The Saturn V was an order of magnitude larger than needed to deliver the largest nuclear weapons to Moscow, and would have been utterly
by thescriptkiddie 10y ago
That's not true at all. The Saturn V was an order of magnitude larger than needed to deliver the largest nuclear weapons to Moscow, and would have been utterly impractical as a weapon. The Soyuz may have started out as an ICBM but the Saturn V was purpose built to go to the moon.
- throwanem 10y agoOf course it was. The point I'm making is that the project would not have been funded at all absent the coincidence of a requirement for rockets capable of serving as weapons on one hand, and the US having a geopolitical point to make on the other.
- thescriptkiddie 10y agoOh, well carry on then.