Starfish Prime
1962 high-altitude test, EMP knocked out Hawaii lights
Episodes
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#5797: How Many Nuclear Tests Have There Really Been?Three credible sources, three different numbers — and the gap isn't new explosions. It's what each one decided to count. -
#5794: Starfish Prime: When the US Nuked SpaceIn 1962, the US detonated a 1.4-megaton warhead 400 km above the Pacific. The sky turned green for 90 minutes. -
#5298: The Mountain, the Message: Nuclear Tests as DiplomacyNine states. Two thousand detonations. Why a nuclear test is often a sentence in a conversation, not a lab result.