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Project Pluto (nuclear propelled, nuclear weapons delivery system) (en.wikipedia.org)

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[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 15 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Shit is deranged.

Someone should make a movie where we built and launched these but somehow lost control so they continue to loiter indefinitely.

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world 9 points 11 hours ago

Yeah, it is an absolutely terrifying concept.

"Let's make a weapon so awful, that it can fly around for basically forever, spreading nuclear fallout everywhere it travels at breakneck speeds, and load it up with a dozen or so nuclear bombs, only to cancel the project because the russians would absolutely make this machine as well"

What's worse is the implication of this being revealed to the public. The only way something like this gets unclassified if the military has something stronger/better. Maybe that's ICBMs, maybe something else. Spooky shit either way.