On July 9th, 1962, humanity lit up the heavens in a way never seen before. Starfish Prime, a high-altitude nuclear test, became one of the most ambitious—and controversial—experiments of the ...

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 ...

What happens when you set off a nuke in space? In 1962, the U.S. found out the hard way. Starfish Prime lit up the sky and caused unintended chaos, from power outages in Hawaii to widespread ...