Tuesday, January 11, 2005

Dept. of Nostalgia Ah, remember when the U.S. planned the end of the world, instead of the end of democracy as we know it? Good times. Good times. Scary cold war death machine: Project Pluto. Mark Frauenfelder: MrBaliHai reports on Project Pluto, a cold war weapon of mass destruction [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. Link [Boing Boing] 11:39:04 PM     leave/read comments []