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IN a recent communication1 conclusive evidence has been presented for the artificial production of auroral phenomena by the detonation of a nuclear device in the upper atmosphere. The auroral display in question was observed at Apia Observatory, lat. 13° S., long. 171° W., and is considered to have been produced by a nuclear bomb exploded approximately one hundred miles above Johnston Island, lat. 17° N., long. 169° W.
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Van Allen, J. A., Ludwig, G. H., Ray, E. C., and McIlwain, C. E., IGY Satellite Report No. 3, U.S. Nat. Acad. Sci. (1958).
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FOWLER, P., WADDINGTON, C. An Artificial Aurora. Nature 182, 1728 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/1821728a0
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