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They weren’t crazy. They weren’t being punished. All but one volunteered to do this (which makes it all the more astonishing.)
On July 19, 1957, five Air Force officers and one photographer stood together on a patch of ground about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas. They’d marked the spot “Ground Zero. Population 5″ on a hand-lettered sign hammered into the soft ground right next to them.
As we watch, directly overhead, two F-89 jets roar into view and one of them shoots off a nuclear missile carrying an atomic warhead.
They wait. There is a countdown. 18,500 feet above them, the missile is intercepted and blows up. Which means, these men intentionally stood directly underneath an exploding 2 kiloton nuclear bomb. One of them, at the key moment (he’s wearing sunglasses), looks up. You have to see this to believe it.
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What the?? One of the guys says "my only regrets right now are that everybody couldn't have been out here at ground zero with us". I reckon he mighta had a few more regrets once the radiation poisoning set in.
Posted Jul-17-2012 ByBarremel (2328.80) 
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Thank you very much for sharing this. I have never seen or heard of this video and for once in a long time I was caught completely by surprise.
I keep thinking I know it all (hubris/flawed) and history indeed keeps providing new and interesting stuff for me to realize I know very little.
Posted Jul-17-2012 ByLou1958 (64.76) Lou1958 View Channel Send Message
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Operation Plumbbob, Test 'John'. Nuclear missile, not bomb. The only time it was used.
Here's the missile -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIR-2_Genie
Operation -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Plumbbob
Posted Jul-17-2012 Byjoe prole (1632.30) 
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I bet that was great for their prostates!
Posted Jul-17-2012 ByWE ARE POWER (3484.46) 
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Fuck that.
Posted Jul-17-2012 ByPhantom Fury (149.50) 
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That's a 2kt weapon, very small in comparison, and its a very bright sunny day but the camera still gets overloaded by the flash. It must be astonishingly bright and I can imagine the heat pulse makes it even more frightening.
Posted Jul-17-2012 Bywhogoesthere (258.28) 
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I remember that they had an entire group of soldiers, like an entire batallion just sit a few miles from a nuclear bomb right after world war 2, and majority of the soldiers got cancer later in life.
Posted Jul-17-2012 Byverycoolcat (212.68) 
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@verycoolcat no they didnt...why are ignorant people always so eager to display it?
LOL!
Posted Jul-17-2012 Bythinkslaughter (1489.60) 
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@thinkslaughter
http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,111575,00.html
Posted Jul-17-2012 Byverycoolcat (212.68) 
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@verycoolcat LMFAO! Did you even read that article?
HAHAHAH!!
Posted Jul-17-2012 Bythinkslaughter (1489.60) 
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@verycoolcat
look up a few comments until you see his first comment and see my response. its like the 4th or 5th comment down from the top
Posted Jul-17-2012 ByOnlyLiarsBlock (611.20) 
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@OnlyLiarsBlock
Radiation isn't guaranteed to give you cancer, much like smoking cigarettes isn't guaranteed to kill you. If we use your logic, smoking won't kill you because a select number of individuals lived to a ripe old age.
Posted Jul-17-2012 Byverycoolcat (212.68) 
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And twenty years later, each developed a third nut.
Posted Jul-18-2012 By1976CapriII (42.10) 
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@1976CapriII Ya, on the lung
Posted Jul-18-2012 ByJegsman (270.46) 
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@1976CapriII - Lol
Posted Jul-18-2012 ByZipper10 (4123.32) 
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FUCK...that...shit !
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Plumbbob
Posted Jul-17-2012 Bymylostsoul (736.24) 
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What was the point of placing these men on to a ground zero? Clearly that "halo cloud" is effect of radioactive ionization of atmospheric nitrogen in the stratospheric layer. Only small percentage of nuclear fuel undergoes fission that creates the actual explosion, the rest is dispersed in a plasma state where it condenses in to a fine dust cloud that is highly radioactive.
Posted Jul-17-2012 Bygrindkore (174.20) 
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@grindkore
Actually, the halo cloud is the equivalent of a giant smoke-ring; incandescent gases and dust rising into the upper atmosphere as a rolling torus.
Posted Jul-18-2012 ByNotJim (999.00) 
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@NotJim That too, cloud consist of remaining particles of the bomb condensed moisture and ionized gasses. The atmospheric detonations at nigh have been known to cause an afterglow in skies for hours like a giant florescent bulb slowly drifting and dissipating. Look for videos of US Navy thermo-nuclear tests in the pacific.
Posted Jul-18-2012 Bygrindkore (174.20) 
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Awesome! i had not seen this before.
Posted Jul-17-2012 Bythinkslaughter (1489.60) 
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Took what..11 secs. for the sound to hit. Ground ZERO, seems to me was 80 miles away. ;)
Posted Jul-17-2012 ByGradySizematters (475.72) 
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Didn't do science at school?
Speed of sound is ca. 331meters/ second so the distance was about 3,5 km. That is ca. 2 miles...
Posted Jul-17-2012 Bydutch-1 (115.92) 
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@GradySizematters I don't know how accurate your calculations are but I do admire anyone who applies some thought and reason to what you have just seen :)
Posted Jul-17-2012 ByRebel_Radius (1441.92) 
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@dutch-1 Ditto to my above comment to grady.
Posted Jul-17-2012 ByRebel_Radius (1441.92) 
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@GradySizematters 18500 ft is 3.50379 miles above sea level.
Posted Jul-17-2012 Bywhatduh (438.36) 
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How much longer did these men live? And what did they die of?
The missile was not intercepted. No one had missile interception capabilites back then. The aircraft that launched the missile was known as an interceptor in the 1950s.
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OMG! There's A REAL LIVE Army General with A buzzcut and A cigar (1:45). My day is complete
Posted Jul-17-2012 Bysniperfox99 (363.60) 
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Wow, first I've heard of this.
I wonder if any of those guys died of weird cancers!
But after all they were more than 3 miles away from a very small nuke; I suppose the risk was calculable. On the scale of risk-takers, I figure they're probably a notch or so below a wingsuit flyer. ;-)
Posted Jul-18-2012 ByNotJim (999.00) 
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