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Nuclear weapons in space are bad news for the entire planet
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Nuclear weapons, perhaps. But I still hold out hope that someday nuclear pulse propulsion will find some application. It's far enough out that current-day treaties probably won't impact it, but there's some chicken-and-egg issues - nobody will spend time working on it while treaties forbid it, and treaties won't be updated to allow it if nobody's done any work on it.
Can't complain about what you don't know about. Pretty sure people are working on regardless of any treaties that have been signed.
Nuclear pulse propulsion has no real benefit over continuous thrust designs like NERVA once you get outside of atmosphere. And having a reactor makes it really easy to use it for electrical power too