Balloon Wars
Steve Blank
JANUARY 28, 2010
The Search for Soviet Nuclear Weapons. In 1957 the Air Force started Project ASHCAN (using SKYHOOK class balloons at 100,0000 feet) to take high altitude air samples and search for nuclear particles and trace gases in fallout from tests in the Soviet Union. Sniffing for a Reactor – Nuclear Air Sampling – ASHCAN.
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