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IMAGE BY SCIENCE HISTORY IMAGES, ALAMY STOCK PHOTO
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The idea was to explode a nuclear weapon 500 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb in space, just 250 miles above us. And then, maybe, a nuclear explosion on the moon!
In Hawaii, they hosted parties to welcome the big blast, but then the explosion came. The blast made the nighttime seem like noon, knocked out radio stations, and created an artificial aurora seen as far away as New Zealand.
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