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USSR's version: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Project_K_nuclear_tests https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Project_K_nuclear_tests Meta: At present the
by kps 5y ago
USSR's version: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Project_K_nuclear_tests https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Project_K_nuclear_tests
Meta: At present the comment¹ by redis_mic mentioning this is downvoted to [dead]. HN's mob censorship system is completely broken.
¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27869119 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27869119
- orbital-decay 5y ago>The electromagnetic pulse (EMP) fused all of the 570-kilometer monitored overhead telephone line with measured currents of 1500 to 3400 amperes >The EMP from the same test caused the destruction of the Karaganda power plant, and shut down 1,000 km (620 mi) of shallow-buried power cables And that's a 300kt explosion at 290km altitude, above the middle of nowhere in 60's Kazakhstan. Really puts things into perspective. Such a test would be devastating to the modern infrastructure. Boris Chertok (of Rockets and People fame) also wrote that the radio communication was interrupted by another test in the series (K-5) for about an hour, at the distance of 500km from the test site.
- roenxi 5y agoredis_mic has been banned for 12 months, his comment being dead has nothing to do with HN censoring ideas or mobs.