A Review Emphasizing the Impact on the Environment | October 1976 | By Herman Hoerlin | Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory| Concern About Environmental Effects of Starfish-Type Explosions: British and US-NASA Reactions in 1962. Scientific Values in Retrospect

“If I might end on this rather sad note I do beg the Americans to use their influence to the utmost to make quite sure that such projects are carried out only by international agreement and particularly within the framework of the resolution of the International Astronomical Union which was phrased only a few months ago in California. If this is not done then the United States may bear the awful responsibility of having started a chain of events leading to the militarization of space and the destruction of astronomy on Earth…

Finally, a highly successful communication satellite, Telstar, has been placed in orbit and thereby encouraged the commercial as well as the military communication interests in space. The anxiety expressed about ‘Project Needles’ must be paralleled by the anticipation that many Telstar or Echo balloon satellites will have a similar detrimental effect on earthbound astronomy and radioastronomy. The need for international agreement about the use of space and the control of launchings, either of rockets or space-vehicles into it, has become a matter of utmost urgency.”

p. 45-46

-May 1962, Sir Bernard Lovell, Director of the Radio Astronomy Laboratories, Jodrell Bank

Link To Full Document_Oct. 1976- US High- Altitude Test Experiences

Thanks to JM