The History of Nuclear Explosions in Space

In 1962 the U.S. tested a nuke over the Pacific in July of 1962. The idea was like, well if something bad happens let's have it happen over less populated areas I guess. And people imagined like oh that's far enough away from Hawaii to not be a big deal right? But they check with the scientists and the scientists are like yeah right no problem. Turns out the scientists were wrong.