The American Project Pluto/SLAM system was meant to be autonomous and self-launching too. The Western MAD system. Boy am I glad that project never got off the

The American Project Pluto/SLAM system was meant to be autonomous and self-launching too. The Western MAD system. Boy am I glad that project never got off the ground. A MAD-gap/race would have been terrifying. A plane that can circle the Earth 4 and a half times is pretty cool, but at the cost of irradiating the whole planet? Maybe not so much.