High-altitude Nuclear Effects ARA will highlight its advances in high-altitude nuclear effects at the 40th Space Symposium in ...

A 110-kiloton nuclear explosion at 400km altitude would immediately jeopardize approximately ... Beyond the immediate damages are the prolonged radiation hazards. High-yield detonations could create ...

Energy wave created by high-altitude nuclear explosion radiates hundreds of miles in all directions and Trestle will simulate this by two 5-million-volt pulsers discharging energy into ...

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 ...

You'd have natural gas pipeline explosions, nuclear reactor overloads ... was first realized during the 1962 Starfish Prime high-altitude nuclear test. What happened was that it blew about ...

That was Starfish Prime — the highest-altitude nuclear test ... a 1.4 megaton bomb from Johnston Island. And detonated it 400 km above the Pacific — about as high as where the International ...

Primarily, Vulcan was intended as a high-altitude bomber capable of carrying nuclear bombs ... advantage with its capability of carrying heavy bomb loads over large distances during the Cold ...

Nuclear explosions loft this material high into the atmosphere as dust-, salt-, and sand-sized particles, and it can take up to 15 minutes to fall to the ground. High-altitude winds can make it ...

"The threat of an EMP was first realized during the 1962 Starfish Prime high-altitude nuclear test ... You'd have natural gas pipeline explosions, nuclear reactor overloads.