Ancient history lesson: In 1963 I was a nuclear weapons technician in the Army, and I was SOOO envious of the lucky guys who got to go to Johnson Island in the Pacific for the last atmospheric nuclear tests before the Atmospheric Test Ban Treaty took effect.
Shortly afterward we got orders to go into our storage bunkers and paint out the X in the model number of our Nike Hercules anti-aircraft missile warheads, meaning that now they had been tested and were no longer considered “experimental” despite having been in the arsenal for many years. I’m not totally positive, but I think that may have been the test that caused the EMP burst that blacked out Hawaii. Ah, good times, good times.
Ancient history lesson: In 1963 I was a nuclear weapons technician in the Army, and I was SOOO envious of the lucky guys who got to go to Johnson Island in the Pacific for the last atmospheric nuclear tests before the Atmospheric Test Ban Treaty took effect.
Shortly afterward we got orders to go into our storage bunkers and paint out the X in the model number of our Nike Hercules anti-aircraft missile warheads, meaning that now they had been tested and were no longer considered “experimental” despite having been in the arsenal for many years. I’m not totally positive, but I think that may have been the test that caused the EMP burst that blacked out Hawaii. Ah, good times, good times.