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02244aam a2200361Ii 4500 001 CB8288C8163711E9B7068CFC96128E48 003 SILO 005 20190112010021 008 181130s2018 nyua b 001 0deng d 020 $a 1468314173 020 $a 9781468314175 035 $a (OCoLC)1076578125 040 $a NjBwBT $b eng $e rda $c PNX $d PNX $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d IGA $d SILO 043 $a ls----- 050 14 $a U264 $b .W65 2018 082 04 $a 623.4/5119 $2 23 100 1 $a Wolverton, Mark, $e author. 245 10 $a Burning the sky : $b Operation Argus and the untold story of the Cold War nuclear tests in outer space / $c Mark Wolverton. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b The Overlook Press, $c 2018. 300 $a 272 pages : $b illustrations (chiefly color) ; $c 24 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "After the Soviet Union proved to the US that it possessed an operational intercontinental ballistic missile with the launch of Sputnik in the October 1957, the world watched anxiously as the two superpowers engaged in a game of nuclear one-upmanship. In the midst of this rising tension, Nicholas Christofilos, an eccentric Greek-American physicist, brought forth an outlandish, albeit ingenious, idea to defend the US from a Soviet attack: launching nuclear warheads to detonate in outer space, creating an artificial radiation belt that would fry incoming Soviet ICBMs. Known as Operation Argus, this plan is the most secret and riskiest scientific experiment in history, and classified details of these nuclear tests have been long obscured. In Burning the Sky, Mark Wolverton tells the unknown and controversial story of this scheme to reveal a fascinating narrative that still has powerful resonances today."--from publisher's description. 600 10 $a Christofilos, Nicholas. 650 0 $a Nuclear weapons $x Testing. 650 0 $a Atomic bomb $z South Atlantic Ocean $x Testing. 650 0 $a Project Argus. 650 0 $a Atmosphere, Upper $x Research. 650 0 $a Artificial radiation belts. 941 $a 2 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20200204093353.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20200110075329.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=CB8288C8163711E9B7068CFC96128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search