What we need are clean, small H-bombs without a fissioning trigger. ;->
The NIF project at LLNL may make those - but we'd need to come up with
some sort of lightweight driver for spacecraft use - and this would
require a nuclear power source - cooling could be a problem - issues,
issues.

Dan

In a message dated 7/1/02 9:41:55 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

<< But fallout remains the most vexing problem. I did not know that any 
produced within Earth's magnetosphere eventually makes it to the 
planet's surface. >>

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