If you don't know what that means, you aren't a space nerd.
I'm still holding out for my Bussard Ramjet but either way throwing nuclear into the equation seems like a great innovation.
This put my dad out of a job. Or, more specifically, punted him from tracking satellites in Oahu to tracking satellites in Thule. Thule was not good for him.
Wow. I hadn't heard of that event before. http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA009208 And now I'm hiding all of my electronic devices in very well insulated Faraday cage.
Starfish Prime did help everybody discover the EMP, but the satellites it killed, it killed due to lingering radiation in the Van Allen belts. That's the truly shitty thing about orbit - nothing "goes away" it either burns up in the atmosphere eventually or drifts out into graveyard orbit. Assuming it doesn't hit anything. Which is not a good assumption.
Gun turrets were part of the original design?! I had no idea.