[net.space] Nuke in space,

Dale.Amon%CMU-RI-FAS@sri-unix.UUCP (07/13/84)

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.