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Comment author: gwern 08 July 2015 07:34:57PM 7 points [-]

Nuclear space guns have been proposed. Aside from the manhole cover: http://nextbigfuture.com/2010/03/150-kiloton-nuclear-verne-gun.html http://nextbigfuture.com/2010/12/sea-based-launch-option-for-nuclear.html

(This appears in Hannu's Quantum Thief trilogy, incidentally.)

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