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Airrad Link of the week.

Our pick for the week of May 26, 2001 Airrad software for calculating fallout.

A Technical Article from Los Alamos (2.4 meg PDF)

There is a very active club on Yahoo working towards building an Orion They plan to get the ship ready while the treaty restrictions are resolved.

A new book is availble from George Dyson, the son of Key Scientist Freeman Dysom Here's an older note on the book

Aerospace Projects Review has back issues covering orion, and a small book coming out next year.

Project Orion Its Life, Death, and Possible Rebirth- The most popular article on Orion on the web

Project History The Point Loma Legacy - at Suite101, site deals with implications of frontier less conditions. SignOn San Diego Richard Louv Salon Interview Freeman Dyson -"Mars by 1965 and on Saturn by 1970" Freeman Dyson October 1978 Omni George Dyson Letter to Mike Flo ORION... Blast From The Past - diagrams and museum exhibits ORION- Short article. Nuclear Propulsion Summary with Illustration Google Search Theodore T-17 Far-out Pathways to Space Nuclear Experiments with Bomb-Propelled Spaceship Models by Freeman Dyson 1972 Deja.com Search Orion Vehicles Deja.com Re Warp Signatures Deja.com Re Warp Signat-3 Deja.com Re Project Orion Deja.com Re Project Orion Deja.com Re Info on US testing/e Atomic Audit Box 2-2 Weapons Alternate History 1963 - Write if you find the original page or author.
European Links - I'm very curious about any Russian pages you may find. A German Orion Page, the best illustration I've seen to far.

Asteroid Impact, Defense and Mining Recovery of Asteroid Material NEOs: Threat and Promise CC Near Earth Objects Discussion List Science Behind Deep Impact Remote Sensing Tutorial Page 18 Deja.com Asteroid Deflection b Building Tomorrow's Space Battleships with today's technology Asteroids Near Earth / Retrieval Asteroids - Part 2 AF2025 v3c16-3c | Planetary Defense A Hill on Mars -- Chapter 9
Ship Design Our pick for the week of February 4, 2001 was The Golden Age of Atomic Power in Space at Suite101.com. This interview with a key Orion designer explains why toroidal implosions are important. Our pick for the week of October 1, 2000 was a German Orion Page, it has the best illustrations I've seen to far. Try importing the VRML. Space Technology Myth And Promise Human G Endurance with and without a saline bath Space Exploration Technology S Project Orion - proposed atom bomb powered ship Part Time Models... Specialty C Max Payload per Launch Dollar Location Theory in Space Can Big Dumb Boosters be Built? archive-1.txt SETI Project Ori Antimatter and Nuclear Pulse Propulsion Zuppero Bio - Ice Ships Advanced Propulsion Concepts Advanced Propulsion Concepts -10
Radiation Risk ? What is radiation hormesis? Human Biology, Epidemiology, and Low-Dose Ionizing Radiation More Hormesis information links. Coal Radiation Risks How much radiation does a shuttle launch release from coal plant stacks? US Pop Dose Rio Blanco Nuclear Test S-10 DOE/NV Historical Reports - Rad Radiation Levels in Pittsburgh, Natural Radioactivity National Cancer Institute What Man-made Background Radiation Information For Atomic Veterans Health of the population of Fre Gallery of U.S. Nuclear Tests Deja.com Re orion vehicle-7 Atomic Bomb Decision -- Trinity Atomic Bomb Decision
Chinese private overseas trading ban 1433 Should the Ming End the Treasure Fleets CICC CURRENTS - Article at bottom on Cheng Ho, Sea Explorer, Imperial China's Theodore Taylor? BATF and Model Rockets
Bomb Design Details on using cheap reactor grade Plutonium for pulse units World Plutonium Inventory- 1,200 Tons = 240,000 Pulse Units = 370 flights to L5 at 635 pulses each, with better springs we can increase the number of flights. U.S. Nuclear Weapons Cost Study The Gadget The French nuclear connection Permissive Action Links Nuclear Tests Nuclear Davy Crockett -- Stephe Nuclear Davy Crockett -- -11 Multimedia Joint Institute for Nuclear Res Gallery of U.S. Nuclear Tests Engineering and Design of-6 Engineering and Design of Nuclear Devices Deja.com Re Project ORION China test-detonates kiloton neutron bomb? China test-detonates kilo-4 blast.txt 4.3 Fission-Fusion Hybrid Weapon 4.1 Elements of Fission Weapon
Video/DVD The Nuclear Files | Video Libra Starship Modeler 2001 Studio M Nuke Films Assessment of Exposure-Response Functions for Rocket-Emission Toxicants FOOTAGE.net Newswire-20 Fourth generation nuclear weapon : the physical principles of thermonuclear explosives, inertial confinement fusion, and the quest for fourth generation nuclear weapons FOOTAGE.net Newswire-10 FOOTAGE.net Newswire DOE/NV - Historical Nuclear Wea DOE/NV - Historical Nucle-3 Nukes in Space - William Shatner narrates a survey of the space nuclear testing programs of the fifties and sixties. Americas Atomic Bomb Tests Vol 02 - Operation Hardtack- DVD 0800032 - U.S. Army Presents Ivy Flats Film Report - 1962 - Davy Crockett
Books Disturbing the Universe A classic book by Freeman Dyson The Yard : Building a Destroyer at the Bath Iron Works A great view of what it take to build an Orion sized ship. The Starship and the Canoe A B. A B. A B. The Starflight Handbook : A Pioneer's Guide to Interstellar Travel AddAll Book Searching and Price The Curve of Binding Energy - Based on interviews with Ted Taylor, the best early source of information I've found. The Effects of Thermonuclear Weapons Deja.com Re Project Orion Update Science Fiction Writers Resource Powell's Books - Used, New, and Fourth Generation Nuclear Weapons Ships and Seafaring in Ancient Times The Effects of Thermonuclear Weapons The Starflight Handbook : A Pioneer's Guide to Interstellar Travel (Wiley Science Edition) When China Ruled the Seas : The Treasure Fleet of the Dragon Throne, 1405-1433 Fiction Time for the Stars Footfall - A classic, Orion technology is used to fight the invaders, must have been written before a lot of the classified details were out. The Stone Dogs Microfission RE starship-design Antiproton Propulsion Systems - Past Prese Antimatter Space Propulsion at Law The Strategy of Technology - Ch Nukes on trial Nuclear Weapons Responsibility Deja.com Re WI Cheap Space La Deja.com Re Project ORION-5 CONTINUED...The Future of Nucle Previous link of the week Our pick for the week of May 26, 2001 Airrad software for calculating fallout.
Our pick for the week of February 11, 2001 the Rapatronic at VCE.com Excelent pictures of the early fireball stages that would interact with the pusher plate.

Theodore Taylor now has a web site, great Orion material here. Includes comments on JFKs reaction to the Orion battleship model. Eight feet tall, 1000 strategic nukes, ABM nukes defending the ship by exploding a few hundred yards away.

BTTT

Great post - Lots of interesting reading.

I like Project Pluto - The flying Crowbar. Am looking for links.

Excellent post. Another crime to lay at the feet of Johnson and McNamara. The U.S. would have ruled the solar system with these ships, if we had the vision.

Perhaps we can still populate it with the culture of freedom.

Anyone read Niven and Pournelle's Footfall?

Great book. They used a nuclear pulse drive to launch their attack.

They could also concentrate it and use it as a beam weapon.

I remember the line:
God was knocking, and he wanted in bad.

WHAM
WHAM
WHAM

A very jerky ride.

Believe it or not: "jerk" is the scientific term for rate of change of accelleration.

Accelerations are either too high for humans, or the explosions have to very small and nearly constant, simulating continous thrust.

As an "American Kid" who "Grew up" reading the Wonderful, Prophetic, Profoundly Optimistic Science Fiction written by our BEST Trained "Scientific Minds," (Asimov, Heinlein, Pornelle, Dick, Sturgeon, Bishop, etc.,) I am CRUSHED by the thought that America could be "'en Route to the Stars'" by now!

Using the "Atomic Drive Technology" described here, WE SHOULD NOW HAVE A VIABLE COLONY on the MOON & on MARS!!!

Assuming the technological reports seen here are even REMOTELY ACCURATE, WE (Us, the "Human Race,") HAVE BEEN UTTERLY DEPRIVED OF OUR DESTINY by "Self-Appointed Arbiters of Human Technological Capabilities!!"

THE "WIMPS" are controlling our DESTINY!!

Somehow, we MUST allow our "Best & Brightest" to "Take us to our Destiny!" ANY person or Group who deny us our potential MUST BE considered Inimical to our Survival as a Species!!

Doc

I---- (& MANY OTHERS)---Should be exploring the "Sands of Mars" by now!!

Doc

Orion in Deep Impact:

Very good read! Thanks for posting.

This one is from over five years ago, but I found it looking for something else, and it’s definitely worth a bookmark I think. :’)

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European Links - I'm very curious about any Russian pages you may find.

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Chinese private overseas trading ban 1433

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