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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. 5 …This idea was adopted by the British Interplanetary Society in its 1978 Project Daedalus starship study…
  • p. 7 …energy, justifying the expenditures for these large projects. Deuterium can be used as the rocket fuel…
  • p. 8 …Alternatively, one may store the needed energy in the magnetic field of a superconductor. For the…
  • p. 30 …There the large azimuthal magnetic field set up by the toroidal current magnetically insulates the ring…
11 March 2010
ICOD: 1 December 2009
DIA-08-1003-007
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