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Thermonuclear Micro-Bomb Rocket Propulsion

https://archive.org/details/DTIC_AD0746027

Note that this is not fission-powered Orion. This is a cleaner He3 - D reaction which produces no neutrons. It's all charged particles, for which magnetic containment is potentially possible.

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