Q-and-A: How ARA is Addressing High-Altitude Nuclear Effects
High-altitude Nuclear Effects ARA will highlight its advances in high-altitude nuclear effects at the 40th Space Symposium in ...
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RAND: High-Altitude Nuclear Explosion Could Disable 20% of LEO Satellites
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 ...
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From The Archives: B-52 Nuclear Blast Test
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 ...
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The exploding sky
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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Bomber Aircraft: Avro Vulcan
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 ...
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Radiation as a service: How the private sector can protect America’s space infrastructure
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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Q-and-A: How ARA is Addressing High-Altitude Nuclear Effects
Q: What is a high-altitude nuclear explosion? A: A high-altitude nuclear explosion is a nuclear detonation in space, occurring above the earth’s atmosphere, at altitudes of roughly 18 miles or ...