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Project Orion, the nuclear pulse rocket that could have reached Alpha Centauri in 44 years
In the late 1950s, Project Orion proposed a spacecraft driven by rapid nuclear pulses, a pusher plate, and shock absorbers, with designs ranging from an eight crew ship to a city sized interstellar ...
On the Wednesday, January 7, 2026, episode of The Excerpt podcast: “The Nuclear Sponge” is a five-part project by USA TODAY ...
America's 450 nuclear missile silos exist, at least in part, to be destroyed in a nuclear attack. USA TODAY breaks down the ...
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Project A119, the Cold War plan to detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon so the flash could be seen from Earth
In the late 1950s, as Sputnik reshaped the Space Race, the U.S. Air Force quietly studied Project A119, a proposal to detonate an atomic bomb on the Moon as a spectacle visible from Earth. The plan ...
On Nov. 23, 1976, the Spokane Police Department received a note, handwritten by some person or group calling themselves ...
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