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I Introduction

Early Developments
Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion
Rover / Nerva
Other Early Programs


Strategic Defense Initiative

Introduction
Power Sources
Conversion Cycles & Systems
Applications
Evaluation

Space Exploration Initiative

Introduction
Technical Concepts
Development Issues
Applications
Status

TIMBERWIND / Space Nuclear Thermal Propulsion

Introduction
TIMBERWIND
Technical Concepts and Developments
Applications

APPENDICES

LINKS TO OTHER RESOURCES

• Space Nuclear Power: Opening the Final Frontier by Gary L. Bennett, June 2006 (AIAA-2006-4191, presented at the 4th IECEC)
• Mission of Daring: The General-Purpose Heat Source Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator by Gary L. Bennett and James J. Lombardo, et al, June 2006 (AIAA-2006-4096, presented at the 4th IECEC)
• The Timber Wind Special Access Program, Department of Defense Inspector General Audit Report No. 93-033, December 16, 1992
• Background on Space Nuclear Power by Steven Aftergood, Science and Global Security, 1989, Volume 1.
• Atomic Power in Space: A History, prepared for U.S. Department of Energy, March 1987

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