Abstract
It is the purpose of this letter to suggest that ionospheric ionization caused by β particles resulting from the decay of detonation-produced neutrons is capable of causing an artificial geomagnetic solar-flare effect [McNish, 1937] in regions several thousands of kilometers from a high-altitude nuclear burst. Although geomagnetic fluctuations due to a bomb-produced solarflare effect were noted in the Pacific after the Hardtack detonations [McNish, 1959], we refer here to smaller disturbances occurring much farther from the bursts. The concepts advanced in a paper by Crain and Tamarkin [1961], which should be consulted for an explanation of much of what follows, are used to make estimates about the characteristics of this effect. Comparisons with some experimental results are also made.
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