Scientists reviewing newly declassified documents say that Cold War – era arm tests disrupted the Earth ’s magnetized and electrical athletic field . They published their report in the journalSpace Science Reviews .
For a very brief period from 1958 to 1962 , both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. launched atomic artillery into place to see what would happen . The weapons zoomed out into the blackness and detonated .
poppycock explode in infinite all the time . Roughly 275 million starsdie and are bornevery day . Our own Sun roils , burps , and flares , post solar winds full of nuclear particles toward us and the other planet in our system . And like a rock thrown into a flow , each event make ripples in the flowing magnetic , electrical , and radiation fields nearby .
The nuclear test made similar but unusual splashes .
The Teak test , launched over the North Pacific on August 1 , 1958 , produced charged particle that swept along Earth ’s magnetic field into the sky above Western Samoa . That night , astronomer at the Apia Observatory saw an aurora — a sight not usually reckon there .
The Argus mental testing , also in 1958 , hold out higher than any trial had before , sending particle zip far off across the space above our major planet , causing acute but abbreviated magnetic storms in Arizona and Sweden .
Other test produced radiation smash , and the resulting electric disturbances damage nearby satellites .
“ The exam were a human - generated and utmost illustration of some of the space conditions effects frequently triggered by the Sun , ” conscientious objector - author Phil Erickson of MIT ’s Haystack Observatorysaidin a statement .
“ If we understand what happened in the somewhat control and utmost result that was triggered by one of these man - made event , we can more easily sympathize the natural variation in the near - space surroundings . "
