re: #158 Targetpractice

As to “Skyfall,” unless the Air Force has been doing some testing that they by all rights should have been dissuaded from ages ago, then the closest the US ever got to a nuclear-powered cruise missile was Project Pluto back in the 50s & 60s. And the kibosh was put on that project not because anything on the ground that avoided death from the Mach 3 supersonic shockwave being right above their heads would wind up dead from the radioactive exhaust the missile put out, but because the AF rightly deduced that the Soviets would just build one of their own. And considering the state of sophistication of Soviet nuclear tech in the same time period (see: submarine K-19, aka “Hiroshima”), the idea of Moscow possessing such a weapon scared the ever-loving bejesus out of everybody with a stronger grip on reality than a character from Dr. Strangelove.

Jeez, the things you learn just by reading LGF!
I knew the G had worked on all sorts of weird atom-powered stuff back in the day, but I never knew that they had actually built a “nuclear ramjet”!

Weird