What a great idea lets call it the "why bother" personally I think the bigger problem might be that a few nations hurling multiple warhead nuclear weapons at each other is going to make it hard to find follow up customers.
Although its immediate design is destructive in its purposes. It is astounding what use it could have for good intentions.
Seeing this video, makes me see how Lockheed Martin assisted the Phoenix team with rocket technology and ground radar in the descent to the red planet. the landing site shows a pretty smooth landing, no?
Would have been interesting to see this thing go against the other teams in the Lunar Xprize competition.