[SiempreViernes]

Why would you test it this way? And to be clear, "this way" means all over the world in many different places but always from afar and usually without any obvious way for the distant operators to know what the effects are.

Surely you could either test it domestically or against low profile targets in situations where you could closely study the effects.

[jonplackett]

We're going too far down the conspiracy path now, but maybe they did that already and this is step 2?

Or maybe it's just aliens... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯