Asri-unix.1277 net.space utzoo!decvax!cca!HAGAN@Wharton-10@sri-unix Wed Apr 21 13:43:53 1982 Nuclear Power in Space From: HAGAN at Wharton-10 (John Hagan) As I understood it, the U.S. had signed an international agreement that forbids nulear energy power plants and weapons in space. Due to this contract, NASA had to scrap a plan to use small atomic bombs to propel a craft to speeds like .1C, and perhaps visit planets and STARS... Any truth in this? ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.