{"id":274,"date":"2017-05-08T16:40:07","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T16:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/?p=274"},"modified":"2017-05-08T23:45:31","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T23:45:31","slug":"operation-morning-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/operation-morning-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Operation Morning Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Background<\/h3>\n<p>Kosmos 954 (Russian: \u041a\u043e\u0441\u043c\u043e\u0441 954) was a reconnaissance satellite launched by the Soviet Union in 1977.<\/p>\n<p>A malfunction prevented safe separation of its onboard nuclear reactor; when the satellite reentered the Earth&#8217;s atmosphere the following year it scattered radioactive debris over northern Canada, prompting an extensive cleanup operation.The effort to recover radioactive material from the satellite was dubbed Operation Morning Light.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/images\/pdf.gif\" alt=\"\" \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/documents.theblackvault.com\/documents\/cia\/operationmorninglight-cia1.pdf\">Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) documents on Operation Morning Light<\/a> [7 Pages, 1.2MB]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/images\/pdf.gif\" alt=\"\" \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/documents.theblackvault.com\/documents\/accidents\/morninglightusaf.pdf\">Department of the Air Force documents on Operation Morning Light<\/a> [14 Pages, 410 kb]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/images\/pdf.gif\" alt=\"\" \/>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/documents.theblackvault.com\/documents\/accidents\/morninglight-histories.pdf\">Department of the Air Force Historical Research Agency (AFHRA) documents on Operation Morning Light<\/a>\u00a0[5 Pages, 410 kb]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Background Kosmos 954 (Russian: \u041a\u043e\u0441\u043c\u043e\u0441 954) was a reconnaissance satellite launched by the Soviet Union in 1977. A malfunction prevented safe separation of its onboard nuclear reactor; when the satellite reentered the Earth&#8217;s atmosphere the following year it scattered radioactive debris over northern Canada, prompting an extensive cleanup operation.The effort to recover radioactive material from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":275,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","transcript_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,3,4,19,7],"tags":[140],"class_list":{"0":"post-274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cold-war-era","8":"category-history","9":"category-intelligence","10":"category-space","11":"category-wartime","12":"tag-kosmos-954"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/original.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}