To create a spacefaring civilization

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Our sattelites are transmitting your information to us.

You will be assimilated.

Yes and most of it is unmanned stuff.

ruveyn

Yoda says "do not your breath hold until nuclear propulsion have we, else blue turn you will"

ruveyn

So why hasn't it?

ruveyn

Nuclear Pulse Propulsion violates the nuclear test ban treaty.

The technology does not exist. It is exists only in theory and prototype. And it is done with fission bombs not fusion bombs which is why it is banned. Too much radiation is spewed out. The only place where an A-bomb propelled space ship is practical is in orbit. It has to built in orbit with pieces lifted up by conventional chemical rockets or high power cannons.

Except for sunlight and its derivatives fusion power is nowhere in sight.

ruveyn

The biggest objection to Nuclear Pulse Propulsion was that the atomic explosion would blow up the ship. However a model rocket was built and propelled using conventional explosives and this proved that the ship would not blow up. After seeing the movie footage many of the NASA scientists including Werner Von Brahn became instant believers.

As far as fission versus fusion yes the interplanetary nuclear pulse propulsion rocket would have used fission bombs. But the rocket was scaled up so that interstellar travel would be possible. The intersteller version contained 300,000 hydrogen bombs with the explosive fire power of 300 billion tons of TNT. It could travel at 60 million miles per hour and could reach the nearest star in 50 years. Price tag was only 1.5 Trillion dollars which is cheaper than the war in Iraq and a small price to pay to get rid of the worlds nuclear arsenal.