Project West Ford: The Cold War Plan to Surround Earth with Needles
During the height of Cold War tension, when the United States and the Soviet Union were locked in a technological and ideological struggle, American military planners pursued an extraordinary experiment known as Project West Ford. Conceived in the late 1950s and executed in the early 1960s, the project aimed to create a thin artificial ring…

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