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Guessmyname said:
I do love how 'back the MFA' has a chance of nuclear war, but invading Austria doesn't.
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For a pretty simple reason, Italy does not have nukes!

[] Plan DUMBO
-[X] Expanded Surface Area
-[X] Low Pressure Designs

Made a plan for our nuclear rocket (I think it makes more sense to do so than do a line vote for it) (Nvm, apparently this isn't the case so disregard and vote by line), I think going for a DUMBO design is a lot more interesting than reiterating on NERVA, and this shouldn't cost too much, just an extra 5 RpT.

As for our CI Minister, we shouldn't pass on a fascist killing machine girlboss! Not to mention her skills will be much needed going into the 80s as our easy oil runs out.

[X]Zuleikha Gabibovna Seidmamedova

And I am all in favor of extracting concessions from Semyonov, and not risking nuclear war. I think that as long as we keep oil prices low on our part in the next couple
years things might work out.

[X]Compromise with Semyonov
 
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[X] Expanded Surface Area
[X] Linear-Core
[X] Zuleikha Gabibovna Seidmamedova
[X] Compromise with Semyonov

Going with Cryo's ultraconservative plan for the rockets, fishing for a favour, and of course Zuleikha
 
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[X] Zuleikha Gabibovna Seidmamedova

[X] Linear-Core
The thing to remember here is that any nuclear rocket is a big game-changing advance compared to OTL. Making our nuclear rocket design more complex and expensive in pursuit of higher performance, when our space program is trying to get by on incremental progress without "moonshot" levels of super-funding, isn't a great idea.

So I, for one, favor a nuclear rocket design that's based on something we know worked in real life, at least as a prototype, since it's still a huge increase in Isp performance that will be transformative for a lot of space applications.
 
[X]Expanded Surface Area
[X] Linear-Core
[X]Kita Nikolaevich Shavishvili
[X]Back the MFA

The chances of nuclear war are overblown, such demonstrations of strength are pretty expected in the moment of crisis. No one's first thought is going to be "There's a crisis in Austria, but this isn't just posturing, that's the moment the Soviets will invade Western Europe". I think the bigger risk here is that police intervention has a chance of being both too much and not enough at the same time, exacerbating the crisis but not having the power to suppress it. Still, this is a pretty acceptable risk, all told.

Simon_Jester said:
The thing to remember here is that any nuclear rocket is a big game-changing advance compared to OTL. Making our nuclear rocket design more complex and expensive in pursuit of higher performance, when our space program is trying to get by on incremental progress without "moonshot" levels of super-funding, isn't a great idea.

So I, for one, favor a nuclear rocket design that's based on something we know worked in real life, at least as a prototype, since it's still a huge increase in Isp performance that will be transformative for a lot of space applications.
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Thing is, I don't think we can choose less than two. The option certainly doesn't tell us we can. I guess two projects is just the optimal size of the program, and there's no point in downsizing it.
 
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[x]Back the MFA
[x]Expanded Surface Area
[x]Low Pressure Designs
[x]Zuleikha Gabibovna Seidmamedova

Fearing nuclear war is how you lose the cold one! More seriously, this is the most moderate option (i.e. not hoping things will suddenly sort themselves out or creating an expensive propaganda bonanza).
 
[X] Expanded Surface Area
[X] Low Pressure Designs
[X]Zuleikha Gabibovna Seidmamedova
[X]Compromise with Semyonov
 
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[X] Plan DUMBO

I like one simple and one ambitious. Also our quality of nuclear cores might increase with a well developed Atomash.

[X] Zuleikha Gabibovna Seidmamedova

She sounds nice.
 
[X]Zuleikha Gabibovna Seidmamedova
[X]Compromise with Semyonov

Arguments for Seidmamedova are convincing to me, as is taking backing Semyonov. Hopefully it doesn't hurt our alliance with Romanov to badly. I am very much not knowledgeable enough to make a choice regarding our rocketry options, so I'll leave that to others.
 
[X]Expanded Surface Area
[X]Linear-Core
[X]Zuleikha Gabibovna Seidmamedova
[X]Compromise with Semyonov
 
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-[X] Expanded Surface Area
-[X] Low Pressure Designs

Apparently we are supposed to vote by line, so fixed my vote.

[X]Zuleikha Gabibovna Seidmamedova
[X]Compromise with Semyonov
 
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