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Subject: Space Station Killing
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Date: Sun, 1-Apr-84 21:51:00 EST
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Posted: Sun Apr  1 21:51:00 1984
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From:  Robert Elton Maas <REM @ MIT-MC>

    From: DBraunstein.ES@Xerox.ARPA
    I've never heard of any nuclear tests that were conducted in earth
    orbit, but I guess they probably occured before 1963 (year of test
    ban treaty).
I think the person who used "LEO" to describe the location of the
H-bomb tests was using inappropriate terminology, since the weapons
were sub-orbital lobs, not actually orbiting Earth. Perhaps they were
in the same place that a LEO satellite might be, but LEO refers to a
real orbit, i.e. a phase-space locale (position plus velocity), not
just to a simple distance from Earth. The H-bomb test was just "up in
space", not "in Low-Earth Orbit". I think you are correct, there never
were any H-bomb tests from actual orbit.

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