An old post of mine suddenly got a great deal of traffic the last couple of days. I’d recorded a piece called Starfish Prime a couple of years back, and in the accompanying blurb, I did a small bit of explanation on the name.
As it turns out, this week was the 50th anniversary of the event for which it was named. A Reddit user linked my article as an informative source, which it really isn’t. For the story of the weird experiment our government did involving detonating nuclear bombs in the upper atmosphere, there’s a good article from Scientific American here.
Sometimes history is stranger than fiction.