Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...little difficulty that Brzezinski so soothingly soft-pedaled was the fiery return to earth of Cosmos 954-a Soviet spy-in-the-sky satellite carrying a nuclear reactor to power its ocean-scanning radar and radio circuitry. The craft crashed into the atmosphere over a remote Canadian wilderness area last week, apparently emitting strong radiation. American space scientists admitted that if the satellite had failed one pass later in its decaying orbit, it would have plunged toward earth near New York City-at the height of the morning rush hour...
...Great Slave Lake, some 1,000 miles north of the Montana border. She saw what "looked like a jet on fire. There were dozens of little pieces following the main body, all burning and each with its little tail of fire just like the big piece." At a Royal Canadian Mounted Police detachment in Hay River, 125 miles south of Yellowknife, Corporal Phil Pitts saw a "bright white and incandescent" glowing object and reported it as a meteorite. Told later that it was a uranium-bearing satellite, he declared: "My gosh, I was standing on the roof watching...
Trudeau first got the word at his home on the Ottawa River when Jimmy Carter called at 7:15 a.m., E.S.T., just 22 minutes after the satellite came down. The Prime Minister had known about the possibility of a Canadian landing at least since the weekend...
...soon as the landing was confirmed, Operation Morning Light, as it was christened, was swiftly launched. The U.S. dispatched a high-flying U-2 and a large KC-135, both carrying radiation sensors, to check for high-altitude radiation in the Canadian wilderness. A 22-man Canadian nuclear-accident support team, equipped with radiation-proof suits and ready to collect any satellite debris on the ground, flew from Edmonton to Yellowknife. A 44-man team of U.S. military technicians arrived from Andrews Air Force Base and Nellis Air Force Base...
After two days of searching, a low-flying joint U.S.-Canadian "sniffer" plane detected what Canadian National Defense Minister Barnett Danson called "an extremely dangerous" level of radiation. A U.S. intelligence official told TIME Correspondent Jerry Hannifin: "Obviously, some part of the satellite survived the burnout to hit the ground...