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Defense Intelligence Reference Document Advanced Nuclear Propulsion For Manned Deep Space Missions

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This Defense Intelligence Reference Document from the Defense Intelligence Agency, dated 11 March 2010, was produced under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications (AAWSA) Program. It argues that spaceships powered by deuterium thermonuclear reactions could be built with current science and technology. The paper covers ignition by GeV proton beams, magnetic insulation, the Super Marx generator and conjectured chemical superexplosives, and it concludes that such craft could make manned exploration of the entire solar system possible.

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  • p. 10 …10- 7 erg is the electron rest mass energy. For B = 2x 104G, one finds that…
  • p. 13 …and the electron charge, M the hydrogen mass, A the atomic weight, and Z the atomic…
  • p. 16 …The stagnation pressure of a GeV proton beam is (MH proton mass) (19) For n1,-='= 2x…
  • p. 18 …From the rocket equation where Muis the initial and M1 the final mass, and setting M1…
  • p. 23 …one has to take into account the mass of the air entrained in the fireball. The…
  • p. 31 …But because of what Freeman Dyson described as the "tyranny of the critical mass," small fission…
11 March 2010
ICOD: 1 December 2009
DIA-08-1003-007
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Advanced Nuclear Propulsion
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