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Tuesday, January 11, 2005

Scary cold war death machine: Project Pluto

MrBaliHai reports on Project Pluto, a cold war weapon of mass destruction

[S]ometimes [it's] easy to forget that the era also produced truly horrifying Cold War schemes like Project Pluto: a low-altitude cruise missile, powered by an atomic ramjet that carried multiple hydrogen bombs and puked out chunks of radioactive debris, killing everyone along its flightpath.

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