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My head canon is that the writers were sick of the DOD interfering and forcing them to write in all these plot points that were real events. The writers went rogue for an episode and spilled the beans. The best part is after the episode aired, they had total immunity because any retaliation would be a confession.
Akshually akshually atmospheric escape is a very slow process and would take even a large atmosphere thousands or maybe even millions of years to disappear. You could add the atmosphere first and have plenty of time to figure out how to keep it second.
The atmosphere would still be a CO2 toxic hellscape, so we could only send billionaires there for a long time.