The most ill-advised weapon in US history was too dangerous to even test
Oct 19, 2020
2 minutes
BY KYLE MIZOKAMI
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in 2019, a small nuclear reactor exploded on a military testing site in Russia, killing seven people and causing a brief spike in radioactivity in two nearby cities. Even now, the details are still scarce; Russia’s nuclear agency blamed tests concerning ‘isotopic sources of fuel on a liquid propulsion unit’. But evidence suggests that
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