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@Warlocketx-
You're kidding, right? SLAM was specifically designed to be a triple threat out tha box. Mach 6 shockwave at
300 feet over any country it's targeted to. That alone would kill hundreds. No, but wait! There's the 15 1.5 to 2 kiloton MIRV's riding on it's back-popping out the top to drop on any target so chosen as it passes by. Wham!
Then there's the sweet kiss-off. I quote you- "SLAM's exhaust would not have been particularly radioactive, because it used air in a ramjet configuration, and there's nothing in air that gets highly radioactive, or stays radioactive for long".
Are you brain-dead? SLAM was an "open core" reactor, you ferkin dumbass!!!!. That was one of it's point's! It was planned to be flyable for a minimum of three MONTHS over any chosen target with a reactor that had NO SHIELDING AT ALL, spewing little chunks of the core all the way, everywhere it went.
Let me reiterate- three months, at mach 6, spewing transuranics with a half-life of 1200 years all the way-plus popping out airdrop nukes wherever it felt like it!
One of the reasons it never got off the ground was they never could figure out how to test it safely, or figure out how to dispose of the rig after it was finished, other than crashing it into the deep Pacific.......
You're the one who's getting programs mixed up- NERVA is the powerplant you're thinking of- which was never ever meant to be used in atmo. That was meant to be a thruster for outer system propulsion. The program you speak of is "Rods from God", which have no powerplant at all, they are just kinetic energy weapons.
SLAM was so insidious that even the designers didn't want to finish it, yet yur dumbbass thinks it was ok.....last point; they were contemporary.Both programs were started by 1957. "Rod's" didn't come along until the mid 70's. Fact-check, brutha
May 5, 2011, 12:44:49 PM
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