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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Wolverton, Mark, author.     Subjects     Christofilos, Nicholas.     Nuclear weapons -- Testing.     Atomic bomb -- South Atlantic Ocean -- Testing.     Project Argus.     Atmosphere, Upper -- Research.     Artificial radiation belts.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Wolverton, Mark, author.       by title:      Burning the sky : Op...         MARC Display

Burning the sky : Operation Argus and the untold story of the Cold War nuclear tests in outer space / Mark Wolverton. by Wolverton, Mark, author. New York : The Overlook Press, 2018. Subjects Christofilos, Nicholas.   Nuclear weapons -- Testing.   Atomic bomb -- South Atlantic Ocean -- Testing.   Project Argus.   Atmosphere, Upper -- Research.   Artificial radiation belts. ISBN:  9781468314175 (hardcover) : Description:  272 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm Edition:  First edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  "After the Soviet Union proved to the US that it possessed an operational intercontinental ballistic missile with the launch of Sputnik in the October 1957, the world watched anxiously as the two superpowers engaged in a game of nuclear one-upmanship. In the midst of this rising tension, Nicholas Christofilos, an eccentric Greek-American physicist, brought forth an outlandish, albeit ingenious, idea to defend the US from a Soviet attack: launching nuclear warheads to detonate in outer space, creating an artificial radiation belt that would fry incoming Soviet ICBMs. Known as Operation Argus, this plan is the most secret and riskiest scientific experiment in history, and classified details of these nuclear tests have been long obscured. In Burning the Sky, Mark Wolverton tells the unknown and controversial story of this scheme to reveal a fascinating narrative that still has powerful resonances today."--from publisher's description.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 355.82511 Wo Checked In Add Copy to MyList Liliha Public Library Adult Nonfiction 355.82511 Wo Checked In Add Copy to MyList Pearl City Public Library Adult Nonfiction 355.82511 Wo Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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