Russia is preparing to search for a nuclear-powered missile that was lost at sea

CNBC ^ | Aug. 21, 2018 | Amanda Macias

[Mouton]

Quick, activate the glomar explorer!

[RinaseaofDs]

Isn’t that cute?

They tried this in the 50’s with a nuke powered bomber too. They got the system to work. Decided is was not worth the trouble. At all.

[Starboard]

A flying Chernobyl

-- Gregg Herken, historian of the Cold War

[Tell It Right]

Shhhhh….Be vewy, vewy quiet. I’m hunting nucwear wabbits. :)

[Tallguy]

They better move quickly or the US Navy will have it. Just cause something gets lost underwater no longer means that it’s lost for good.

[Calvin Locke]

They got the system to work.

Yeah, Art Bell used to have a guy on that work on that project.

IIRC, it worked, but the weight of the shielding necessary to protect the crew made it not work.

[Tallguy]

From what I’ve read — and the articles are really poorly written & sourced — what this is is a aerodynamic reentry vehicle that can carry a nuclear device. It gets launched by an IBM (that’s the ‘unlimited range bit) but after reentry it can glide on almost any track to strike a pre-planned target.

[Western Phil]

Too late, a US submarine has already retrieved it.

After 16 years of clinton and obama, I’m not so sure.

[bravo whiskey]

They put one in a modified B-36.

[jmcenanly]

It sounds like Project Pluto a nuclear Ramjet that the US did a study on in the early 1960's. Not only did this thing fly around dropping nuclear devices, it also had a highly radioactive exhaust from its engines. It would have killed anyone unfortunate to be in its flight path, whether it bombed them or not.