As a weapon . . system? . . it's hard not to gawk at this awesome assemblage of megadeath. Charles Stross gave the SLAM the honor of fighting Cthulhu in "A Cold

As a weapon . . system? . . it's hard not to gawk at this awesome assemblage of megadeath. Charles Stross gave the SLAM the honor of fighting Cthulhu in "A Colder War". http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/colderwar.htm http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/colderwar.htm This also features another nuke engine, the ANP turbojet that would have been installed on the B-36 variant using it (test aircraft was, I believe, NB-36). Stross seems to think the ANP was open-cycle, but the (probably) most likely choice for that program would have been a closed-cycle nuclear turbojet. Any weight/efficiency loss would have been more than made up for by the . . the just general pain in the ass of having an open nuclear reaction fooshing onto the tarmac and everywhere else.