Despite many successful firings, American nuclear rockets did not fly before the space race ended.

The true strength of nuclear rockets currently lies in solar system exploration, outside Earth's gravity well.

And because of it, the nuclear rockets have had their nightmare hatching.

Your husband is primed, the possibilities implanted, and then he's shot up like a nuclear rocket.

But that's because the radiation from those nuclear rockets is so intense.

Could have ridden in on a nuclear rocket not much more advanced than our own.

He felt his weight diminishing as Beast cut power to the nuclear rockets.

It was still scuffed, from the dust kicked up by that British nuclear rocket.

These proposed designs are typically similar to those suggested for nuclear electric rockets.

In the past, some Federal experts have argued that the risks of nuclear rockets are minimal and the benefits potentially great.