The military wanted to test the electromagnetic impacts of nuclear weapons in space. In 1962 they lit up the sky.

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 ...

Rumors of a space nuke made geopolitical tensions extend into orbit. Amid an Escalating Arms Race in Space with Russia and ...

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 ...

The experiment, dubbed Starfish Prime, generated an electromagnetic pulse, releasing a massive burst of energy 250 miles above the ground, which fried about one third of all active satellites at ...

Details of the US project, called Starfish Prime, have subsequently been declassified, revealing those early scientists were surprised by what they found... So could Russia, China or North Korea use ...

Ski Team's next single, Islands, is out in January. STARFISH PRIME are four Richmond district locals who met through the local music scene and bonded over a shared love of late-90s power pop and ...

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 ...