solar flares make magnetic mines explode......
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There was an additional effect, long buried in the Vietnam War archives that adds credence to the severity of the storm impact: a nearly instantaneous, unintended detonation of dozens of sea mines south of Hai Phong, North Vietnam on 4 August 1972. The US Navy attributed the dramatic event to ‘magnetic perturbations of solar storms.’
link:
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2018SW002024
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There was an additional effect, long buried in the Vietnam War archives that adds credence to the severity of the storm impact: a nearly instantaneous, unintended detonation of dozens of sea mines south of Hai Phong, North Vietnam on 4 August 1972. The US Navy attributed the dramatic event to ‘magnetic perturbations of solar storms.’
link:
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2018SW002024