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Scary cold war death machine: Project Pluto
MrBaliHai reports on Project Pluto, a cold war weapon of mass destruction

Mattm Balihai Images Pluto [S]ometimes [it's] easy to forget that the era also produced truly horrifying Cold War schemes like Project Pluto: a low-altitude cruise missile, powered by an atomic ramjet that carried multiple hydrogen bombs and puked out chunks of radioactive debris, killing everyone along its flightpath.