He also worked on the famous Project Orion, which used nuclear bombs for propulsion. In this article we’ll take a look at these and other parts of Mr. Dyson’s legacy, as well as the influence ...
In 1958, that was the question facing nuclear physicist Freeman Dyson and the team behind Project Orion — one of many Cold War attempts to find new beneficial uses for the bomb. Then one day ...
Nuclear pulse propulsion was first developed as Project Orion by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), U.S.