the 1962 Nuclear Test 184 in which a nuclear bomb was detonated at an altitude of 290 km. The ensuing HEMP damaged a 1000 km long line in Kazakhstan which was designed to be protected from such damage. The electrical damage is comparable to the strongest naturally occurring geomagnetic disturbances recorded.

Post-Cold War

thumbAs the Cold War ended with the implosion of the Soviet Union the space race between the two superpowers ended. The

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