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The nuclear space battleship the US seriously considered

Project Orion was a Cold War plan to build a massive spacecraft powered by controlled nuclear explosions. Backed by US Air ...
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The spaceship powered by nuclear bombs, how Project Orion planned to launch cities into space and why it was stopped

In the 1950s, Project Orion proposed a radical solution to deep space travel, pushing massive spacecraft forward with rapid nuclear detonations, with designs that ranged from small crews to city sized ...