10 Heinous Projects That Remained Hidden In Classified Documents

In the mid-'50s, in the United States, the strategic command of the air force, the atomic energy commission and the Vought corporation (currently NASA) were working on nuclear-powered cruise missiles under the designation of the “Pluto project”.

Strategic Air Command was looking for a cruise missile in the Pluto project to supplement or even replace its existing fleet of bombers.

The USAF was given the contract to build the Vought cruise missile nuclear-powered in 1955.

The Vought SLAM was an unmanned vehicle capable of transporting nuclear weapons 14-26 of the range of megatons (in theory), and whose flight would emit a trace of radioactive smoke because an open nuclear statorreactor cycle is used.

A test flight was planned for the prototype in the mid-1960s, which would be launched from the West Coast of the US. But the test was canceled.

One of the major problems surrounding the Pluto project was its price. And last but not related to the missile itself, the USA feared the construction of a similar weapon by the Soviet Union. Because of these factors, the project was canceled in 1964.