n 1962, the United States detonated a nuclear weapon 250 miles above the Pacific Ocean. It was supposed to be a controlled Cold War test. Instead, Starfish Prime lit up the sky across the Pacific, knocked out streetlights in Hawaii, disrupted telephone lines, damaged electronics, and created an artificial radiation belt around Earth. Satellites began failing one by one. Scientists had not predicted how far the effects would reach, or how long they would last. At the time, there were only a few dozen satellites in orbit. Today, there are thousands. GPS, banking systems, weather forecasting, shipping, aviation, power grids, military communications, drone warfare, and global internet infrastructure all depend on satellites. A nuclear explosion in space today would not just be a strange Cold War spectacle. It could cripple modern civilization. And now, U.S. intelligence believes Russia may be developing a nuclear anti-satellite weapon. Such a weapon would not need to hit a single target directly. It could damage orbit itself, creating electromagnetic effects and radiation that threaten satellites from every nation, including commercial systems that were never built to survive a nuclear event. Starfish Prime was the warning. The question is whether the world learned from it in time. Source:
USA vs. Russia – The Plan to Kill the Actual Clock
Source: Dark Space
