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Five Men Agree To Stand Directly Under An Exploding Nuclear Bomb
The country was just beginning to worry about nuclear fallout, and the Air Force wanted to reassure people that it was OK to use atomic weapons. And so on July 19, 1957, five Air Force officers stood on a patch of ground in the Nevada desert and waited for the bomb to drop.
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I imagine that if I were given the opportunity to stand under a 2-kiloton nuclear explosion, I would be torn between the once-in-a-lifetime awesomeness and the impending fear of..well the nuclear bomb. These guys must have really trusted those scientists.