Can Icbms reach escape velocity?

So no matter what, eventually you need to reach the escape velocity, whatever it may be. An ICBM does not hit anything itself.

Can an ICBM reach orbit?

Most ICBMs actually fly at or very near orbital speed, although not in the right trajectory for orbital flight. The Wikipedia article for the R-36 states that it flies at 7.9 km/s, which is actually orbital velocity. Simply re-programming the computer to fly at a more level flight will allow it to achieve orbit.

Did the United States ever have a missile that could hit the Moon?

Not all the specific technical details of early American ballistic missile technology are clear (some things are still classified), but during an interview Reiffel gave later in life, he insisted we had the capability to hit a target on the moon with an accuracy of within two miles.

What if we could detonate a nuclear bomb on the Moon?

The aim of the project was to detonate a nuclear bomb on the Moon, which would help in answering some of the mysteries in planetary astronomy and astrogeology. If the explosive device detonated on the surface, and not in a lunar crater, the flash of explosive light would have been faintly visible to people on Earth with their naked eye.

Why did the Air Force want to go to the Moon?

Sometime before May 1958, the U.S. Air Force asked the ARF team to investigate something truly out of the ordinary: the visibility and effects of a hypothetical nuclear explosion on the moon. The Air Force wanted to surprise the Soviets and the world: Hey, look at what we can do.

Can we move the Moon out of its orbit?

In other words, to move the moon out of its orbit, humanity would have to strike it in precisely the right location with a force 1.5 million times greater than our collective nuclear arsenal. (And that’s assuming that every joule of energy from the warheads would be transferred to the moon’s motion—an absolute impossibility.)