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The Project Orion "battleship" was a proposed, but never built, concept for a massive, nuclear-powered space warship that emerged from the 1950s/1960s study on nuclear pulse propulsion. This military application of the Orion drive concept was presented to the U.S. Air Force and, reportedly, to President John F. Kennedy, who was so alarmed by its militaristic nature that political support for the entire project waned.
The Project Orion "battleship" was a proposed, but never built, concept for a massive, nuclear-powered space warship that emerged from the 1950s/1960s study on nuclear pulse propulsion. This military application of the Orion drive concept was presented to the U.S. Air Force and, reportedly, to President John F. Kennedy, who was so alarmed by its militaristic nature that political support for the entire project waned.
