posted on Oct, 2 2007 @ 11:03 PM
No, it's not possible to test a nuke far enough away that it isn't detectable. Massive balls of fire, immense amounts of radiated heat, as well as
all sorts of electromagnetic pulses and powerful gamma ray bursts make a nuke explosion one damn hard thing to hide.
Also, space officially begins at 100km, at the Kármán line, so anything below that altitude is an atmospheric test.
The only real use of high-altitude nuclear explosions is to provide a massive EMP to disrupt pretty much all non-hardened electronics at ground level.
The EMP that is released from a ground level nuke explosion is negligible compared to the same weapon being detonated at, say, 80km ASL.