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100 1  Wolverton, Mark,|eauthor. 
245 10 Burning the sky :|bOperation Argus and the untold story of
       the Cold War nuclear tests in outer space /|cMark 
       Wolverton. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bThe Overlook Press,|c2018. 
300    272 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :|billustrations 
       (some color), maps ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
520    "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 Christofilos, Nicholas. 
650  0 Nuclear weapons|xTesting. 
650  0 Atomic bomb|zSouth Atlantic Ocean|xTesting. 
650  0 Project Argus. 
650  0 Upper atmosphere|xResearch. 
650  0 Artificial radiation belts. 
650  7 HISTORY / Military / Nuclear Warfare.|2bisacsh 
650  7 HISTORY / Military / Weapons.|2bisacsh 
650  7 HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.|2bisacsh 
650  7 SCIENCE / History.|2bisacsh 
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