George Dyson On The Orion Project

wrote:

I believe Dyson's book mentions that while Orion was primarly designed
with fission bomblets in mind, the design group discussed fusion
bombs. In fact, Dyson says, the more you scale UP the concept, the
better it gets!

Orion was one of many projects in the 1950's that seemed like an
Awfully Good Idea - so long as you didn't actually examine the details
too closely.

D.
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Oct 5th, 2004 JDL