In a curious premonition, several plot lines of Ice Station Zebra played out in reality a decade later in the far north of Canada. On 24 January 1978, COSMOS 954, a Soviet nuclear-powered surveillance satellite, crashed in the Northwest Territories. The crash scattered an enormous amount of radioactivity over a 124,000 square kilometer area in Canada's north. According to the Canadian government "the clean-up operation was a coordinated event between the United States and Canada. Dubbed "Operation Morning Light", the clean-up effort continued into October 1978 and resulted...in the estimated recovery of about 0.1 percent of COSMOS 954's power source". In November 1978, the United Nations authorized its Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space to set up a working group to study nuclear-powered satellites.

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