"On September 22, 1979, US satellite, Vela Hotel 6911, detected something that sent alarms flaring through the Pentagon. One blinding flash of light followed by another just as powerful. The pattern was unmistakable; it was the telltale sign of a nuclear explosion.
But who would detonate a nuke right in the height of the Cold War without informing America? Was it the Soviets testing the line? Or had a new, rogue player joined the nuclear club?
The US launched a massive, urgent investigation. The data was scary. The Arecibo Observatory, in Puerto Rico, confirmed an anomalous ionospheric wave consistent with a nuclear detonation. The pieces were coming together.
And then… the US went silent, the Carter administration discarded the event as a simple atmospheric phenomenon."
And that rogue player is even more of a serious world problem today.
But who would detonate a nuke right in the height of the Cold War without informing America? Was it the Soviets testing the line? Or had a new, rogue player joined the nuclear club?
The US launched a massive, urgent investigation. The data was scary. The Arecibo Observatory, in Puerto Rico, confirmed an anomalous ionospheric wave consistent with a nuclear detonation. The pieces were coming together.
And then… the US went silent, the Carter administration discarded the event as a simple atmospheric phenomenon."
And that rogue player is even more of a serious world problem today.
"It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong." – Thomas Sowell
