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Proton
built 636 days ago
In the beginning, Proton was conceived not as a booster but as a weapon. In the early 1960s, every new rocket to leap from the designers drawing boards in Russia had to have a military mission. The old Soviet military planners conceived of the need for a heavy-lift missile that could orbit very large military satellites, as well as loft large nuclear bombs toward their intercontinental targets. According to space analyst and researcher Mark Wade, the first drawings of Proton designs called for lifting atomic bombs up to 100 megatons in size, powerful enough to reduce large U.S. cities to rubble. But the weapon-carrying version was never built. Instead a satellite launcher emerged from the drawing boards.
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