September 22, 1979: Two Flashes in the Ocean and the Suspicion of a Nuclear Bomb

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In the morning of September 22, 1979, when much of the southern hemisphere was asleep, two brief impulses of light were recorded on one of the most remote regions of the planet. The signal came from the southern Indian Ocean, somewhere between Africa and Antarctica, and it would probably have gone unnoticed if it had not been captured by an American satellite whose mission was precisely to search for traces of clandestine nuclear explosions. The…

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Imagine the scene: somewhere above the South Atlantic, in the middle of the night, a flash of light teares the darkness, followed a few moments later by a second almost identical flash. No human witness observes directly. Only an American satellite, designed to monitor nuclear tests around the world, captures this fleeting signal. During [...]