Notes for Chapter 7

1. ORION could have put a two million pound payload on the Moon in one flight. This is more than sufficient for a complete Lunar Base.

2. The Soviets seriously considered very large geographical engineering projects such as diversion of north-flowing rivers and the creation of an inland sea.

3. The massive Soviet testing program of 1961 has been discussed in other chapters. A good work on the subject is Bielenson, The Test Ban Trap.

4. Accuracy is much more important than yield in increasing the SSPK. For example [[ give examples from Rand wheel ]]