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 ...

This was something I had seen before. I’ve since learned that the explosion that I witnessed was called Starfish Prime and was the largest high-altitude thermonuclear warhead test conducted by the ...

In the test, known as Starfish Prime, a 1.4 megaton nuclear weapon was detonated 250 miles above the Earth’s surface in the Pacific. In an instant, an electromagnetic pulse - a brief burst of ...

THE PAST: STARFISH PRIME AND PROJECT K Both Russia and the U.S. have detonated nuclear warheads in space. In the 1960s, little was known about how the relatively new weapons of mass destruction wo ...