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Project Starfish 1962

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posted on Jan, 1 2009 @ 09:00 PM
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Starfish Prime was a high-altitude nuclear test conducted by the United States of America on July 9, 1962, a joint effort of the Defense Atomic Support Agency (DASA) and the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). Launched via a Thor rocket and carrying a W49 thermonuclear warhead (manufactured by Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory) and a Mk. 4 reentry vehicle, the explosion took place 400 kilometers (250 miles) above Johnston Island in the Pacific Ocean. It was one of five tests conducted by the USA in outer space as defined by the FAI. It produced a yield of 1.4 megatons of TNT.

Im wondering if anything of this magnitude has been done recently?

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posted on Jan, 1 2009 @ 09:40 PM
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that is damn interesting... I never knew of Project Starfish.

Is it possible that it has happened again in recent times? perhaps.. but I would think "They" would conduct these experiments over the north pole where auroras are more common and if "they" are doing their experiments elsewhere... let's say Nevada.. it would be on a smaller scale.

Project Starfish could be the mother of our current EMP technology.


MBF

posted on Jan, 1 2009 @ 10:05 PM
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I think that is the one that knocked the lights off in Hawaii. I think that alll testing was stopped in the 60's.



posted on Jan, 1 2009 @ 10:14 PM
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I've been studying about Starfish and other upper atmospheric testing the last few months. I'm trying to link a relation between those testings and the enviromental issue of having a hole in our ozone layer and the media hype that CFC's, Freon (R-12), and Carbon emissions are the cause rather than the Nuke testings. The location of the hole in the ozone is near antartica, and the majority of the testings was not to far.



posted on Jan, 1 2009 @ 10:15 PM
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They got HAARP now to do that so they do not need nukes.



posted on Jan, 1 2009 @ 10:22 PM
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Here's a interesting link from DOE with films of the different testings. I myself am a native to Vegas and consider myself a nuclear baby. The test site is roughly 70 miles north of me and there has been over a 1000 testings there.

DOE archive



posted on Jan, 2 2009 @ 07:46 AM
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I find it interesting that with all the nuclear testing going on in the 1960'3 and 1970's , that they would not plan it out more carefully. After ww2 it was known that there is significant radiation effects that affects people, however it still continued.



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