I'm curious - did the people testing space nuclear weapons predict the intense effects? AKA killing 7 satellites and more impressively to me, causing an aurora seen from New Zealand to Hawaii (!!!).
> I'm curious - did the people testing space nuclear weapons predict the intense effects
No:
> Starfish Prime caused an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) that was far larger than expected, so much larger that it drove much of the instrumentation off scale, causing great difficulty in getting accurate measurements. The Starfish Prime electromagnetic pulse also made those effects known to the public by causing electrical damage in Hawaii, about 900 miles (1,450 km) away from the detonation point, knocking out about 300 streetlights
