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→Chronology of the Atomic Age: Add Eric Schlosser's book Command and Control, about the many accidents involving nuclear weapons by the U.S. military. |
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* 10 October 1963 — The [[Partial Test Ban Treaty]] goes into effect, banning above ground nuclear testing.
* 26 August 1966 — The first [[pebble bed reactor]] goes on line in [[Julich]], [[West Germany]] (some [[nuclear engineer]]s think that the pebble bed reactor design can be adapted for [[Pebble bed reactor#Mobile power systems|atomic powered vehicles]]).
* 1968—Physicist [[Freeman J. Dyson]] proposes building a [[Generation starship|space ark]] using an [[Project Orion (nuclear propulsion)|Orion nuclear pulse propulsion rocket]] powered by [[hydrogen bombs]]. The rocket would have a [[payload (air and space craft)|payload]] of 50,000 [[tonne]]s, a crew of 240, and be able to travel at 3.3% of the [[speed of light]] and would reach [[Alpha Centauri]] in 133 years. It would cost $367 billion in 1968 dollars, which is the equivalent of about $2.2 trillion in 2012 dollars.<ref>"Nuclear Pulse Propulsion: A Historical Review" by Martin and Bond, Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, 1979 (p.301)</ref><ref>[http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classes/109.jvn.spring00/nuc_rocket/Dyson.pdf Interstellar Transport] Physics Today October 1968</ref>
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