Preferred Citation: Ulam, S. M. Analogies Between Analogies: The Mathematical Reports of S.M. Ulam and his Los Alamos Collaborators. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1990 1990. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft9g50091s/

 
7— On a Method of Propulsion of Projectiles by Means of External Nuclear Explosions: With C. J. Everett (LAMS-1955, August 1955)

Abstract

Repeated nuclear explosions outside the body of a projectile are considered as providing means to accelerate such objects to velocities of the order of 106 cm/sec. A few schematic calculations are presented, showing the dependence of the mass ratios ("propellant" to the final mass), accelerations, etc, on the various free parameters entering in this scheme.

7— On a Method of Propulsion of Projectiles by Means of External Nuclear Explosions: With C. J. Everett (LAMS-1955, August 1955)
 

Preferred Citation: Ulam, S. M. Analogies Between Analogies: The Mathematical Reports of S.M. Ulam and his Los Alamos Collaborators. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1990 1990. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft9g50091s/