NASA looking into Nuclear powered space vessels
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Although they are a pile of shit and should be shut down as an organisation, does this run afoul of the UN treaty concerning radioactive materials in space or does that strictly concern weapons only?
As once it's up there, would be fairly easy to turn it INTO a weapon..
That is a good point. We could travel through space, or nuke others more easily. Likely both will happen.
Yeah that treaty was in place so both the US and the USSR at the time couldn't have orbital nuclear platforms for obvious reasons. If I remember right biological is also included.
Though the 'rods from god' of putting tungsten rods in space is completely legal in the treaty...
I think I remember this. It was talked a lot during the early 80's when Star Wars was an actual thing.