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Nuclear weapons in space are bad news for the entire planet (www.theverge.com)
submitted 11 months ago by kinther to c/space
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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Nuclear weapons, perhaps. But I still hold out hope that someday nuclear pulse propulsion will find some application. It's far enough out that current-day treaties probably won't impact it, but there's some chicken-and-egg issues - nobody will spend time working on it while treaties forbid it, and treaties won't be updated to allow it if nobody's done any work on it.

[โ€“] NocturnalMorning 2 points 11 months ago

Can't complain about what you don't know about. Pretty sure people are working on regardless of any treaties that have been signed.

[โ€“] SkybreakerEngineer 1 points 10 months ago

Nuclear pulse propulsion has no real benefit over continuous thrust designs like NERVA once you get outside of atmosphere. And having a reactor makes it really easy to use it for electrical power too