On the windswept coast of Barbados, buried in coral and forgotten by history, lies a weapon so powerful it could have shot satellites into space. It was supposed to change the world. Instead, it vanished into silence—abandoned, ignored… and perhaps, deliberately erased.
This is Project HARP, the Cold War experiment that built the largest gun on Earth… and then abandoned it.
In 1961, as the Space Race heated up, a Canadian engineer named Gerald Bull pitched an audacious idea: forget rockets. Use a cannon instead. It sounded insane until the U.S. Army and Canadian military agreed to fund it.
They called it the High Altitude Research Project: HARP. Not to be confused with the HAARP project in Alaska, which later theories later latched onto. This was different. This was real...
