Putin’s nuclear torpedo and Project Pluto

Re:Putin’s nuclear torpedo and Project Pluto by hitekker on Sunday January 03, 2016 @11:38AM (#10831146)

> 65,000 lbs, 80 feet long, with the terrifying code name, SLAM (Supersonic, Low Altitude Missile), or … “project Pluto.” This thing was perilously close to being built. They tested the engines at full scale and full power at Jackass Flats, and the guidance system was good enough they used essentially the same thing in the Tomahawk cruise missile.

For those who wish to read more about it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pluto

And for those who want to see a very interesting kind of doomsday in which this superweapon is used:

http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/colderwar.htm

A most enjoyable short story.

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Re:Putin’s nuclear torpedo and Project Pluto by arethuza on Sunday January 03, 2016 @12:03PM (#10831255)

Nuclear powered cruise missiles also feature in Missile Gap by the same author - ICBMs not being able to work for interesting reasons.

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Re:Putin’s nuclear torpedo and Project Pluto by cstross on Sunday January 03, 2016 @02:50PM (#10832019)

* Waves

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Re:Putin’s nuclear torpedo and Project Pluto by arethuza on Sunday January 03, 2016 @05:58PM (#10832995)

As someone who was a teenager in the late 70s and early 80s both A Colder War and Missile Gap appeal to my morbid fear of, and powerful fascination with, all things nuclear warish :-)

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Re:Putin’s nuclear torpedo and Project Pluto by cstross on Monday January 04, 2016 @10:46AM (#10836168)

I'm about your age, then. (Born 1964, was 25 when the Berlin Wall came down: where I grew up, lived, went to school, and attended university was never more than 10km from a WarPac strategic nuclear target.)

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Re:Putin’s nuclear torpedo and Project Pluto by arethuza on Monday January 04, 2016 @04:43PM (#10838909)

Out of interest, were you writing perl in Edinburgh about '95? Because I have a very vague suspicion we may have met!

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Re:Putin’s nuclear torpedo and Project Pluto by cstross on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @07:37AM (#10842910)

Yes. (At fma Ltd, who had Demon Internet's web support business until early 1997.)

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