Nuclear sky shot startles Hawaii 50 years ago this hour (1962)


Video: 'Declassified U.S. Nuclear Test Film #62'

(Sunday, July 8, 1962, 11:00:09 p.m. HAST) — The United States tonight conducted Starfish Prime, a nuclear test in which a 1.44 megaton warhead was detonated 250 miles above the Pacific Ocean. The resulting electromagnetic pulse caused limited electrical disruptions in parts of Hawaii.