Blowing up the moon, huh?

Factual Questions
1

I read somewhere, well, it may have been here at the SDMB, that during the Cold War the U.S. government was going to blow up the moon.

Why? What would it do for us. And wouldn’t it effect us somehow, like the tidal waves or something?

Thanks

2

Look here http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000518/01/moon-bomb

BTW, this took me all of 6 seconds to find.

3

… and the food all has lumps, too … I’m sick of it …