AH challenge: Vought SLAM doomsday weapon in operational service

Archibald

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Your challenge is to create a crapsack world, a dystopia bad enough to have the Vought SLAM enter operational service

a locomotive-size missile that would travel at near-treetop level at three times the speed of sound, tossing out hydrogen bombs as it roared overhead. Pluto's designers calculated that its shock wave alone might kill people on the ground. Then there was the problem of fallout. In addition to gamma and neutron radiation from the unshielded reactor, Pluto's nuclear ramjet would spew fission fragments out in its exhaust as it flew by. (One enterprising weaponeer had a plan to turn an obvious peace-time liability into a wartime asset: he suggested flying the radioactive rocket back and forth over the Soviet Union after it had dropped its bombs.)

http://www.merkle.com/pluto/pluto.html
http://jalopnik.com/the-flying-crowbar-the-insane-doomsday-weapon-america-1435286216

I think a World of laughter, a world of tears could do it.
The anglo-american nazi war could pull that trick, too.
Or perhaps some defence contractor within Rumsfeldia re-discover the concept.
And of course there is For all times madness: it is a crying shame the author missed such a weapon, it would perfectly fit the narrative.

What do you think ?
 
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