Could humans alter the moon's orbit significantly with current technology?

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A terrible virus has made most of the populations and government officials of the largest superpowers on Earth stark, raving mad, without depriving them of their intelligence.

They have decided that they want to alter the orbit of the moon. Would it be be technically possible for humans to alter the moon's orbit if they wanted to?