Elon Musk’s Mars Nuclear Plan: Controversy & Reactions

Elon Musk’s Mars Nuclear Plan: Controversy & Reactions

In September 2015, Elon Musk, speaking on a television program, proposed detonating thermonuclear charges on the poles of Mars in an effort to warm the planet and rapidly vaporize the dry ice covering its surface. The suggestion immediately drew criticism and concern from international actors. Dmitry Rogozin, then head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, … Read more