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Oh yes - Project Icarus

Socrates II — 5/7/2009 1:52:12 PM (archived)

An MIT study done in 1968 to deflect Apollo planetoid Icarus with six
100-megaton bombs lofted by modified Saturn 5 rockets.

http://www.thespacereview.com/article/175/1

So, anything more recent and less extravagant?

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