Starfish Prime – Nukes In Space – July 9, 1962
It was the height of the cold war and blowing up stuff was what we did. This time, it was a nuke shot into space to explode in the Van Allen radiation belt. The Van Allen belts had only been …
It was the height of the cold war and blowing up stuff was what we did. This time, it was a nuke shot into space to explode in the Van Allen radiation belt. The Van Allen belts had only been …