They’re really economizing with these stories: writing about three major fake psyOps in one article, complete with a frame-able Photoshop job. The cold war hoax, the nuclear hoax, and the Apollo hoax (not to mention the possiblity of a non-spherical earth), all combined into a beautiful work of fiction. Our best minds indeed. Do I see a movie in this? I think I see the twin towers down there..
.Nine seconds after 11 o’clock on the night of July 8, 1962, a 2,200-pound W-49 nuclear weapon detonated 248 miles above a tiny island to the west of Hawaii.
via How Cold War nuclear testing once made orbit unsafe for Apollo | Ars Technica.