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So project Orion was a top secret project during the first proposed in the forties and began development in the late fifties and early sixties, in which the US military designed and biult a test modle of a nuclear pulse driven warship that was designed to be able to rain down atomic thunder onto the soviet union as well as carrying humans into the final frontier. An Orion class Warship would have dwarfed the shuttle and would have been able to travel through space at speeds that make the shuttles look slow.
JFK took one look at the program and killed it, But what if he hadn't what if he increased the budget and the Air force began full production of orion class warships? what would the soviets have done? what could they have done? Would America have started to colonize space? and what would the modern day world look like? Would there be a great American colonial empire in space? would the soviet union be aa smoldering pile of radioactive ash? would the earth be uninhabitable do to nuclear bombs raining down on it from space? If so would the Americans abord the ships find a new place to cal home or would that be the end of the human race.