Scary Idea from the Cold War
In the early 1960s, the Soviets had a plan to make a Doomsday Weapon
of sorts by loading a large ship with tons of radioactive material and having
it sail around the world continuously, with the plan that if it was required
they could just aim it towards a harbor of an offending nation (guess which
one).
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