This Weather Phenomenon Caused a Nuclear Bomb Test to Go Horribly Awry
In 1955, the Soviet Union tested a bomb designated RDS-37 at a missile testing site in northeast Kazakhstan. The bomb’s power had been scaled down for the test, but a relatively rare weather phenomenon gave it an unexpected, and destructive, increase in power. The Semipalatinsk test site would, under normal conditions, have been a safe…
