can cities be annihilated from the air?/blast a home in the moon?

its amazing how so many mid-century views of life in the year 2000 are incredibly wrong. no time-travel, no flying cars and no moon bases. this article from 1962 shows a hypothetical way to build houses on the moon. never mind the fact that we're not even remotely close to making widespread lunar colonization a reality.

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/01/28/blast-a-home-in-the-moon/

what is disheartening is the fact that technology fears are more often closer to the mark than triumphs. the fear that an entire city could be obliterated by planes was proven correct in Dresden, within 10 years of this articles publication.

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/02/02/can-cities-be-annihilated-from-the-air/