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On July 9, 1962, the U.S. conducted one of its last high-altitude tests of a nuclear weapon on Johnston atoll in the ... I’ve since learned that the explosion that I witnessed was called Starfish ...

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Photograph of the Starfish Prime high-altitude nuclear test explosion on July 9, 1962. Credit: U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency This time last year, United States government officials released ...

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