The method of direct perturbation is applied to a rf-driven Josephson junct
ion with strong and quadratic damping resistor. Perturbed correction to the
heteroclinic orbit is constructed and its boundedness conditions are estab
lished to contain the Melnikov criterion for the onset of chaos. The result
shows that the corrected heteroclinic orbit is unbounded, unless it is cha
otic. The analytically deterministic chaotic solution exposes the incomputa
bility of chaotic orbits, which is numerically demonstrated.