A declassified 1962 memo reveals Starfish Prime damaged a UK satellite

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The document used Shakespearean prose to report the technical failure

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Not sure if he's being serious here or not, but I didn't even realize there may have been semi-serious discussion of destroying the Van Allen Belt with nukes.

10:07 AM · Jul 15, 2026

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