longsword14
Banned
As in selling radical ideas. Anyone could have looked at the payload and realised just how little return it gave for the investment in the project. Yet, things were developed anyway.Rockets had been around for a while. Atom stuff was something too small to see on a lab bench.
Getting even a fraction of the input, major breakthroughs in reactor technology would have been possible. If they get that break, then suddenly things look much rosier (uranium and plutonium were considered as fissile materials, only plutonium was not named as such).