Burning the Sky: Operation Argus and the Untold Story of the Cold War Nuclear Tests in Outer Space

The unbelievable true story of an American Cold War scheme to detonate nuclear bombs in space is revealed in this military history exposé.The summer of 1958 was a nerve-racking time. The Soviet Un ...

The unbelievable true story of an American Cold War scheme to detonate nuclear bombs in space is revealed in this military history exposé.The summer of 1958 was a nerve-racking time. The Soviet Union’s launch of Sputnik drew America into a game of nuclear one-upmanship. Tensions escalated between the two superpowers over their respective nuclear weapons reserves, both sides desperate for a solution to the imminent threat of massive destruction. In America, an outlandish yet ingenious idea was raised by the eccentric physicist Nicholas Christofilos: launching atomic bombs into outer space to fr