Talk:Operation Argus

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Contents 1 Images of the Argus shots 2 LRL 3 Usefulness? 4 Country? 5 Superfluous link?

[edit] Images of the Argus shots

I've looked pretty hard for images of the Argus shots and have been unable to find one. I'd very much like to have one if you can find it. aa v ^ 20:50, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

• I've searched around quite a bit for them (so as to have something for the List of nuclear tests page), and have never been able to find any, only pictures of the missiles on the boats which may or may not have even participated. --Fastfission 00:22, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

If I get a bug in my bonnet I may FOIA one, as I'm very interested. The stuff's been declassified. And it's not like they didn't take any pictures. Maybe the 400+ km shots were not entirely visible, but I suspect they saw something. aa v ^ 01:24, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] LRL

The article says that the tests were proposed by Nicholas Christofilos of the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory. Was this lab what is now known as Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (which is where LRL redirects to currently), or what is now Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory? I know that LLNL was known as UCRL officially for many years because it was the "Livermore branch" of LBNL and often shows up in nuclear records as such. I only ask because we should have it redirect correctly if it was actually what we would now specify as Livermore. --Fastfission 00:22, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

I think the redir is probably right. We might consider asking somebody who is familiar with the subsequent page to comment. Thanks, by the way, for your work on these articles. aa v ^ 01:23, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Christofilos was at the Berkeley lab.

70.177.168.171 14:14, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Usefulness?

Such radiation belts were viewed as having possible tactical use in war.

What, exactly, would this use be? I have seen this claim in several places, but to date I have not seen any explaination of what effect this would have. On source, a TV show apparently based on Dark Sun, suggested this would be used to disrupt Soviet warhead guidance, but I can't imagine how unless they used some sort of ground-based mid-course guidance. Does anyone know what they though the effects would be?

Maury 12:33, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

It was thought that such a radiation field might damage the warhead electronics, preventing detonation.

70.177.168.171 14:13, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Country?

There's nothing in the introduction that says what country carried out this operation. I had to read two sections in to find explcit mention of the U.S. Navy. Would someone more knowledgeable about Argus like to clarify this in the opening paragraph? Cheers, Cephal-odd 04:40, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Superfluous link?

Why does this article link to the South Atlantic Anomaly? Is some nutbag claiming that these tests caused the SAA, which is physically impossible? Or is someone obliquely suggesting that the location of the tests was chosen to be in the SAA to avoid satellite detection? If so, that needs to be stated. --76.224.71.159 09:35, 2 October 2007 (UTC)