Message-ID: <1944@sri-arpa.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 13-Jul-84 08:34:49 EDT
Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.1944
Posted: Fri Jul 13 08:34:49 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 17-Jul-84 06:22:56 EDT
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I posted this same response only about a month ago. The explosion of a
nuclear device in space occured circ 1961-62. It was launched from Johnston
Island and if anyone cares to go library searching there was a LIFE magazine
pictorial of it. The explosion was one of the last before Kennedy and
Kruschev agreed to a test ban.

It was also around this time that the soviets fired off a superbomb at
Novaya Zemyla (airburst, not space burst!!). It was (possibly) as large as
100MT.