Episode 415
Starfish Prime
Learn about the time the Americans nuked space
Everything Everywhere Daily: History, Science, Geography, & More
August 25, 202110m 8s
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Show Notes
In the 1950s and 1960s, the United States detonated nuclear bombs on land, on the water, underground, underwater, and in the atmosphere.
The only thing that they hadn’t nuked was space itself.
So, in 1962 they did just that.
Learn more about Starfish Prime and the time that the United States detonated a nuclear weapon in space, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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