The largest nuclear bomb in outer space exploded 64... yrs ago today. Starfish Prime was a 1.4 megaton thermonuclear warhead, detonated at the altitude the Space Station now orbits. It created man-made radiation belts that wrecked many satellites & lasted 5+ years. A year after the test the USA & USSR signed the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, leading to the global 1967 Outer Space Treaty.show more

64 years ago Today, Starfish Prime was launched and... became the largest nuclear test conducted in outer space, one of 5 conducted by the US in the upper atmosphere. It disabled or damaged one third of LEO satellites.show more

61 years ago #Today, Starfish Prime was launched and... became the largest nuclear test conducted in outer space, one of 5 conducted by the US in the upper atmosphere. It disabled or damaged one third of LEO satellites [read more:show more

After riding to Saturn aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft, 20... years ago today European Space Agency's Huygens probe made the first landing on a world in the outer solar system when it descended through Titan's thick atmosphere.show more

Cannikin In 1971, the United States conducted the Cannikin... test, in Alaska. The largest underground nuclear weapons test in American history. The 5-megaton bomb (about 400 times more powerful than the one dropped on Hiroshima) was detonated at a depth of approximately 1,790 meters below the island's surface. The detonation produced a seismic shock of magnitude 7.0 on the Richter scale, causing the ground to lift by about 6 meters, followed by subsidence that created a crater lake over 1 mile wide and about 12 meters deep. Reports indicate that the environmental effects were significantly greater than those predicted by the Atomic Energy Commission.show more

On November 6, 1971, this nuclear test shook the... entire Earth.. On November 6, 1971, the United States conducted Cannikin, the largest underground nuclear test in history, on Amchitka Island, Alaska. Detonated nearly a mile beneath the surface, the blast had a yield of nearly 5 megatons—over 300 times the power of the Hiroshima bomb. The explosion was so immense that it lifted the ground above several meters and sent seismic waves equivalent to a magnitude 7.0 earthquake rippling through the region. Shockwaves were felt across Alaska, and the Earth itself literally “rang” from the force. Despite widespread fears of tsunamis and geological devastation, the government declared the test a technical success. Cannikin stands as a stark symbol of Cold War nuclear ambition—a moment when humanity unleashed weapons powerful enough to move the planet itself.show more

NEWS: For the first time, SpaceX's Dragon capsule just... successfully performed a reboot demo using its Draco thrusters to alter the International Space Station's altitude. NASA gave SpaceX the contract to deorbit the ISS & send it into the ocean at the end of its lifetime in 2031. The Dragon capsule fired its Draco thrusters for ~12.5 minutes today to adjust the station’s orbit. Here is a video of the test today:show more

🚨BREAKING: US TESTS DOOMSDAY MISSILE CAPABLE OF NUCLEAR WARHEADS... 20X MORE POWERFUL THAN HIROSHIMA BOMB The United States has test-launched a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile also known as Doomsday missile, from California, according to New York Post. The missile lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base near Santa Barbara. Launch time was reported around 11 p.m. local time. The system is reportedly capable of carrying nuclear warheads that are 20 times stronger than Hiroshima’s bomb. The unarmed missile traveled across the Pacific Ocean. It struck its designated target near the Marshall Islands. Officials say the test verified readiness, accuracy and system performance.show more

Wow. China just compieted an in-flight abort test of... their crewed Moon spacecraft. This was the last major milestone before the agency can conduct an uncrewed orbital flight to their space station at the end of 2026. Mengzhou can carry a crew of 7 to orbit or 3 to the Moon.show more

On November 6, 1971, the United States carried out... Cannikin, the largest underground nuclear explosion ever recorded, on Amchitka Island in Alaska. The device, buried nearly a mile underground, unleashed a force of almost 5 megatons making it more than 300 times stronger than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. The detonation was so powerful it raised the earth above the test site by several meters and sent shockwaves through the ground, producing tremors equal to a magnitude 7.0 earthquake. The seismic impact was felt throughout Alaska, and the force was strong enough to make the planet "ring." While concerns about tsunamis and severe geological damage circulated, officials ultimately deemed the test a technical success. Cannikin remains a vivid reminder of the lengths pursued during the Cold War era, when nuclear tests reached a scale that could literally shake the world.show more

On this day in 1919, Germany signed the Treaty... of Versailles, agreeing to pay 132 billion gold marks in war reparations, roughly $33 billion at the time. The burden equaled more than twice Germany's annual GDP. John Maynard Keynes resigned from the British delegation in protest and published "The Economic Consequences of the Peace," warning that the terms would destabilize all of Europe. To meet the payments, the Weimar government printed money at a catastrophic pace: by November 1923, a single U.S. dollar bought 4.2 trillion marks, and the resulting hyperinflation wiped out the savings of an entire generation of Germans. Germany didn't finish paying off the debt until October 2010, when it made a final $94 million installment, 91 years after the treaty was signed.show more

Skeptical about my theory?Take a look at the Pokémon... LegendsZA logo,the letters are…pink👀 And you know what could be a perfect already existing Rakurium counterpart of the in-game(Z-A)lore? …The crystal that the sundial is made of. That crystal could be the same rock that Rayquaza ate that made it develop the mikado organ. The sundial and the rocks Rayquaza ate, both originated from space, and both cause mega evolution in their own ways. Also this is more of a loose connection but we technically don’t know what the material of the crystal-looking-pieces of the ultimate weapon are made of either🤔 They could all be the same gemstone/meteorite, rich in infinity energy and that came from outer space.show more

Today in 1946, the U.S. carries out the famous... "Baker" nuclear test at Bikini Atoll in the northern Marshall Islands. The 23-kiloton blast engulfs a fleet of 95 surplus warships, including the carrier Saratoga, Yamamoto's flagship the Nagato and the German cruiser Prinz Eugen. (ODD SIDEBAR: Hundreds of goats and pigs were placed aboard the vessels to measure the effects of a nuclear blast upon ships' crews. The vast majority of animals perished in the explosion; a handful of surviving animals died later of radiation sickness. Incredibly, one baby pig, known only as #311, somehow survived after suffering minor radiation exposure. She was taken back to the U.S. for further study where she recovered. The animal became a popular Washington D.C. zoo attraction and lived another four years.)show more

STARLINK IS RUNNING EARTH’S LARGEST SERVER… IN ORBIT While... everyone else is bragging about data centers on the ground, SpaceX quietly put 9,000 solar-powered computers in space and called it a constellation! Orbital Math: •⁠ ⁠Starlink sits at over 9,000+ active satellites after the latest batch •⁠ ⁠The entire rest of Earth manages roughly 3,000 to 4,000 combined •⁠ ⁠Each Starlink unit is a solar-powered network node with onboard compute •⁠ ⁠SpaceX now operates around 75 % of all active satellites in orbit At this rate Earth’s “space industry” is basically Starlink plus supporting characters! Source: Grokshow more

🚨🇨🇳 China's rocket fuel breakthrough shakes up the space... race China's Long March-12 rocket just test-fired a new "high-energy synthetic kerosene" — and the numbers are impressive 🔸 The fuel increased engine specific impulse by around 8 seconds, boosting payload capacity by roughly 10% 🔸 Developed by a CASC subsidiary after 13 years of research, the fuel improves energy density and combustion efficiency 🔸 The system was tested across multiple engine types and adapted for extreme launch conditions in Hainan The development will enhance China’s ability to deploy larger satellite constellations and support future deep-space missions, reflecting growing competition in global space launch capabilitiesshow more

July 16, 1945. At 5:29 in the morning, in... a stretch of New Mexico desert so brutal the Spanish had named it the Journey of the Dead Man, the United States detonated the first nuclear weapon in history. They called the test Trinity and they called the bomb itself the Gadget. Nobody was totally sure what would happen. Scientists had a betting pool going on the yield, and a couple of them had quietly worried whether the thing might ignite the atmosphere itself. They went ahead anyway. The flash lit up the mountains brighter than the sun. People felt it 100 miles away, windows rattled in distant towns, and the heat fused the desert sand into a weird green glass that scientists later named trinitite. The Army put out a cover story that an ammunition dump had exploded. Robert Oppenheimer later said that watching it, he thought of a line from Hindu scripture. Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds. Another physicist there put it more bluntly and said now we are all sons of bitches. Three weeks later Hiroshima was gone. The world changed at dawn in a desert on this day.show more

Tomorrow is going to be a historic day (June... 12, 2026) The world's most ambitious company is going public: SpaceX For the first time, everyday investors have a chance to own a piece of the company that changed the trajectory of space forever After years of building the future of space travel, reusable rockets, Starlink, and the path to Mars, SpaceX is stepping into the public markets This is a company that has completely redefined what’s possible in space, and now everyday investors can be part of it From Starship to Starlink to the future of humanity's multiplanetary life, SpaceX is the key that unlocks the door Tomorrow marks a new chaptershow more

Standing in front of this cathedral now: Built from... 1530 to 1768. 238 years! Nearly the same time USA has been a country! And……it was finished before the USA signed the Declaration of independence. Think about that. Hand made, no machines or USA needed.show more

A B-2 bomber was spotted flying over Southern California... earlier this year. They have been planning this for a long time. Disguising training as “flyovers” 🚨 The B-2 is designed to carry a B83-1 Thermonuclear Bomb - the most powerful nuclear weapon currently in the US arsenal! It has a maximum yield of 1.2 megatons, roughly 125 to 160 times more powerful than the 15-kiloton Hiroshima bomb 👀 Trump mentioned it today and hinted at something coming. STAY VIGILANT and follow with the notifications on‼️show more

🚨Two major space launch failures! A South Korean rocket... exploded after a failed launch at Brazil’s Alcântara Space Center, ending the mission shortly after liftoff Japan’s H3 rocket also failed to deploy its navigation satellite after the second-stage engine shut down prematurely. The satellite was meant for the Quasi-Zenith system that works with GPS These back-to-back setbacks show how unforgiving space missions remain, even for advanced nations From India’s perspective, ISRO's consistent success may make achievements look routine.. but in reality, every successful launch is still a major milestone ⭐️show more

On the Oreshnik and the eternal question about the... warhead There is a particular type of commentator who, after every Oreshnik strike, routinely asks the same question. Was there even a warhead in it this time? The question is meant to suggest that the weapon, without a classical explosive payload, is somehow fake or less dangerous. What it really reveals is that the person asking does not understand how the system works. A conventional ballistic missile carries explosives or a nuclear warhead. The destruction comes from the detonation at the target. The missile is essentially the delivery service. The Oreshnik works differently. It is an intermediate-range missile (range around 5000 kilometers) carrying multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles (MIRV). These reentry vehicles enter the atmosphere at roughly Mach 10 to Mach 12, with Russian sources claiming higher in some cases. That works out to 3 to 3.5 kilometers per second on terminal approach. This is where the physics comes in. Kinetic energy is calculated as E = 0.5 times mass times velocity squared. Velocity enters the equation as a square. A reentry vehicle of a few hundred kilograms, on impact alone, releases energy in the range of several tons of TNT equivalent. With multiple submunitions per missile, that adds up. A tungsten or steel core entering the ground at this speed produces temperatures of several thousand degrees through friction and compression shock. Bunkers and hardened installations are not destroyed by an explosion, they are destroyed by the sheer force and heat of the impact itself. The technical term is kinetic penetration. Now to the actual answer for the warhead-askers. Yes, the Oreshnik is nuclear-capable. This was part of the design from the start, not a retrofit, but a built-in configuration option. Russian officials have stated this openly. The carrier is there. The only question is what it carries. But that is exactly the point the warhead-asker skips over. The whole point of the Oreshnik is that even in its conventional configuration it achieves an effect that previously required nuclear weapons against hardened targets. To destroy an underground command bunker, historically you needed a small tactical nuclear weapon. Today a reentry vehicle at Mach 10 with a few hundred kilograms of mass is enough. No radioactive fallout, no crossing of the nuclear threshold, no political price attached to a nuclear use. In a strike on a major city, the nuclear configuration would, in this conflict, almost certainly not be deployed. Not because it does not exist, but because it is neither necessary nor politically tenable for that purpose. The conventional version is sufficient to send a message without crossing the threshold above which entirely different chains of escalation are set in motion. In short. The question "was there a warhead in it?" misses the point. The Oreshnik does not need a large warhead, because its velocity is the weapon. It can carry a nuclear warhead, at any time. It just does not do so in the current conflict, because it does not have to.show more