Part 2: Cosmos 954 - Operation Morning Light (or How Not To Handle A Nuclear Disaster)
Failure To Launch
English - August 29, 2022 01:46 - 1 hour - 133 MBAviation Leisure Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Part 1: Cosmos 954 - Raining Radiation on Canada's Arctic
Next Episode: The History of Space Guns
Part 2 of our 2 part series. In 1978, a Soviet spy satellite carrying weapons-grade uranium slammed into Canada's Northwest Territories. This episode, we talk about the scientists, soldiers, and psychics who signed on with Operation Morning Light to clean up the mess and why they failed.
Content Warning: As with most things involving the Canadian government's treatment of First Nations people, a fair amount of racism.
Sources:
Leo Heaps, Operation Morning Light: Terror in Our Skies : the True Story of Cosmos 954
http://www.svengrahn.pp.se/trackind/RORSAT/RORSAT.html#References
https://web.archive.org/web/20110929125210/http://gsc.nrcan.gc.ca/gamma/ml_e.php