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From: jsq@ut-sally.UUCP (John Quarterman)
Newsgroups: net.tv.da
Subject: Re: Social solution to nuclear war
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Date: Sat, 10-Dec-83 16:39:35 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec 10 16:39:35 1983
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>I, too, favor the use of nuclear technology in general for space
>exploration rather than arms.  I always wondered why NASA didn't devote
>as much time and money as they did with the Apollo project to construct
>nuclear-powered spacecraft capable of (at least) exploration of our
>solar system, perhaps even to nearby stars.
>
>--greg
>...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!gds
>
>
Try *Disturbing the Universe* by Freeman Dyson, 1979, Harper & Row.
A short answer:  the nuclear test ban treaty and pollution.
-- 
John Quarterman, CS Dept., University of Texas, Austin, Texas
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