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RE: Project Orion: The Starship Propelled by Nuclear Bombs
Why go nuclear when we can do without the radiation? If we really have to go I get it but before then it doesn't really look like a viable option to me.
Radiation is already everywhere in space. If you mean launching from Earth, I feel you, but the lifting capacity made possible by the raw power of nuclear bombs is second to none. It should be fine if they only launched from existing nuclear bomb test sites.