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On plan what happens to the propulsion unit when it gets where it's going? Naturally it blows up. And the radioactivity, well they were shooting at those people anyway. Win-win!

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The US did research on a nuclear-powered missile that would have been an absolute nightmare if it had been used:

https://jalopnik.com/the-fl...

It certainly would have been a disaster for the purity of our natural bodily fluids.

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Ah, Project Pluto.... So deadly, you couldn't even safely test the engine....

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Ah, the fun old days when everything could be atomic!

Go look up the Ford Nucleon for more stuff that thankfully, and with good reason, never got off the drawing board.

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Does he have a ventilation system in that armor? If not, and he has to smell his own toots all the time, that might explain his general surliness.

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Meanwhile, the Russians are shipping a floating nuclear reactor to the Arctic. What could go wrong?

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Russian's technology has always been fabricated by Acme.

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Komrades please! Is no problem no problem! Your fine how you say —stable genius precednent? He will save you with Space Force, da?

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So something like this except with more casualties? (RIP Cecil Kelley)https://en.m.wikipedia.org/...

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Iodine pills just protect your thyroid (gland at the front of your neck) from having the radiation all go there. Which then would give you thyroid cancer. Speaking of cancer, cancers rose after Chernobyl in countries like oh, Finland. This appears to be just across the bay from Finland. 😖 So yeah there’s going to be more casualties related to this. Years down the road.

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By tomorrow afternoon the orange nightmare will have had a call from his buddy Putin to tell him this is all fake news and our intelligence sources are all fake nukes, or news.

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I’d bet that when they’re just hanging out yapping together they do!

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TY. Fascinating! All that lead and WATER! in a plane. 😣🤪😳

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Nuclear FUELED missiles.We are so fucked.

Fun facts! Russia tried in the 1950s to build a nuclear-powered aircraft. Mostly it involved running a reactor in an airplane in a program similar to the USAF NB-36H Crusader test plane, but unlike the American plane they didn't bother with any shielding, and the entire crew eventually died of cancer.But Russian propaganda was quite good, and the Pentagon was convinced that the USSR had a manned supersonic bomber powered by nuclear engines and having unlimited range. https://www.oldmodelkits.co...

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Well, it did make it to model stage, but the idea was more like, 'Supposing we COULD make little reactors?'

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