The Day a Soviet Nuclear Satellite Crashed into the Canadian North

The Day a Soviet Nuclear Satellite Crashed into the Canadian North

Early one morning, on January 24, 1978, Marie Roman was giving the new CBC building at the south end of Yellowknife a very thorough cleaning. We had moved into the new space a few months before. Everybody loved the sweep of the huge windows on the second floor, spanning ninety degrees from the southwest to the northeast. Roman would have been looking south when a fiery, orange ball, with a long blazing tail, came out of the morning sky on her ri…