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Exoatmospheric Nuclear Explosive Tests: Operation Argus, List of Artificial Radiation Belts, Operation Fishbowl, Starfish Prime(English)

Exoatmospheric Nuclear Explosive Tests: Operation Argus, List of Artificial Radiation Belts, Operation Fishbowl, Starfish Prime(English)

          
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Operation Argus, List of Artificial Radiation Belts, Operation Fishbowl, Starfish Prime, High-Altitude Nuclear Explosion, the K Project, Operation Dominic I and Ii, Hardtack Teak. Excerpt: HARDTACK-Teak was an exoatmospheric nuclear test performed during Operation Hardtack I . On 1 August 1958, the shot detonated at an altitude of 76.8 km. Teak caused communications impairment over a widespread area in the Pacific basin . This was due to the injection of a large quantity of fission debris into the ionosphere . The debris prevented normal ionospheric reflection of high-frequency (HF) radio waves back towards Earth, which disrupted most long-distance HF radio communications . The nuclear detonation occurred at 1050 UTC on 1 August 1958 (which was 11:50 p.m., Johnston Island local time, on 31 July 1958). The 3.8 megaton detonation was planned to occur at an altitude of 250,000 feet approximately six miles south of Johnston Island. However, due to a programming failure it burst directly over the island at the desired elevation making the island the effective ground-zero. This brought the explosion 2000 feet (approximately 2/5ths of a mile) nearer than intended to the launch site control and analysis crews. The Teak test was originally planned to be launched from Bikini Atoll, but Lewis Strauss, chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission opposed the test because of fears that the flash from the nighttime detonation might blind Islanders who were living on nearby atolls. He finally agreed to approve the high-altitude test on the condition that the launch point be moved from Bikini Atoll to the more remote site at Johnston Island . According to the book Defense's Nuclear Agency 1947 1997, when the Teak detonation occurred: The Apia Observatory in Western Samoa approxi...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781155849072
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 56
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Weight: 95 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1155849078
  • Publisher Date: 07 May 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: Operation Argus, List of Artificial Radiation Belts, Operation Fishbowl, Starfish Prime
  • Width: 229 mm


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