From: "Robert J. Chassell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Project Orion by George Dyson 2002, Henry Holt and Co ISBN 0-8050-7284-5 (pbk)
No Orion spaceships were built. One reason is that the US Air Force, who liked bombs, could not figure out a reason to explore the solar system. NASA, on the other hand, did not like bombs. Then the test ban treaty came along. While Orion might be considered `peaceful', and thus permitted, few wanted to explode any atomic bombs in the Earth's atmosphere.
Couldn't Orion be assembled in orbit to avoid the atmosphere effects? It certainly would be far far more expensive to do that way, but if the atmospheric detonations are the biggest hitch...
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