Project Pluto's nuclear ramjet bomber/missile sounds like it came from the imagination of a science fiction novelist or a screenwriter: a locomotive-size missi

Project Pluto's nuclear ramjet bomber/missile sounds like it came from the imagination of a science fiction novelist or a screenwriter: a locomotive-size missile that would travel at near-treetop level at three times the speed of sound, tossing out hydrogen bombs as it roared overhead. Pluto’s designers calculated that its shock wave alone might kill people on the ground. Then there was the problem of fallout. In addition to gamma and neutron radiation from the unshielded reactor, Pluto’s nuclear ramjet would spew fission fragments out in its exhaust as it flew by. Not as efficient at killing as ICBMs, I guess, but a much more terrifying concept.