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While this isn't exactly a weapon system, it's both batshit insane and includes nukes. Project Orion was a space race design by our friend Freeman Dyson (also known for the Tungsten Rods program Rods from God, mentioned above) and was built to go interplanetary, or even interstellar.  The whole thing ran on nuclear explosions. quote:Project Orion was a study of a spacecraft intended to be directly propelled by a series of explosions of atomic bombs behind the craft (nuclear pulse propulsion). Early versions of this vehicle were proposed to take off from the ground with significant associated nuclear fallout; later versions were presented for use only in space. Crazy, right? The funny thing is, the nuke-flinging spaceship is still the only design that is both highly efficient and has exceptional thrust capacity. The velocities achievable by this are still unmatched quote:The Orion nuclear pulse drive combines a very high exhaust velocity, from 19 to 31 km/s in typical interplanetary designs, with meganewtons of thrust.[4] Many spacecraft propulsion drives can achieve one of these or the other, but nuclear pulse rockets are the only proposed technology that could potentially meet the extreme power requirements to deliver both at once (see spacecraft propulsion for more speculative systems).
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