On July 9th, 1962, humanity lit up the heavens in a way never seen before. Starfish Prime, a high-altitude nuclear test, became one of the most ambitious—and controversial—experiments of the ...

On July 9th, 1962, humanity lit up the heavens in a way never seen before. Starfish Prime, a high-altitude nuclear test, became one of the most ambitious—and controversial—experiments of the Cold War ...

Actually, you don't have to. You can see it for yourself. That was Starfish Prime — the highest-altitude nuclear test in history. In 1962, the US government launched a 1.4 megaton bomb from ...