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You could easily skip by it in an archive search: a project titled "A Study of Lunar Research Flights." Its nickname is even more low-brow: "Project A-119."
But the reality was much more explosive.
It was a top-secret plan, developed by the U.S. Air Force, to look at the possibility of detonating a nuclear device on the moon.
Congress has asked the Federal Aviation Administration to find a safe way to expand the use of drones in the U.S. CNN's Lisa Sylvester reports.
CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta talks to Wolf Blitzer about pictures of Albert Einstein's brain that were just released.
CNN senior international correspondent Arwa Damon reports on her rare visit with opposition fighters in Northern Syria.