The Day Five Men Willingly Stood Under a Nuclear Explosion
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In the 1950s, fear of nuclear-armed Soviet bombers led to the creation of the Genie rocket. Fired from an American or Canadian fighter jet, the Genie had no guidance system. It merely had to be aimed at a Soviet bomber and the 1.7 kiloton nuclear warhead—packing the equivalent of 1,700 tons of TNT—took care of the rest. The 221-pound warhead was only used once, in a test code-named “John.” On July 19, 1957—59 years ago today—a single Northrop F-89 Scorpion jet flew over Area 10 at the Nevada Test Site. At an altitude of 18,500 feet, a single Genie was launched. It traveled… Continue Reading (2 minute read)
“we’re gonna what now?”
6th guy probably
How much money would you have to be paid to stand directly underneath a massive city-destroying gene-altering weapon?
“Hey what are yall doing out here?” – 6th man who didn’t volunteer
for anyone wondering it was 3.5 miles above their head, i was wondering, like wouldn’t they be vaporized instantly like the people in japan, but 3.5 miles makes much more sense that they didn’t die immediately
I am a liar. This happened in 1957.
Did we not understand the connection of ionizing radiation to cancer at that time?
In all seriousness, with full knowledge of how bad above-ground nuke testing was… I wish I could witness one, but maybe not right under it. I might need to time-machine it [back to Las Vegas in the 50’s](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-08-08/atomic-tests-were-a-tourist-draw-in-1950s-las-vegas).
Then I’d go watch a Saturn V launch…
Dibs on the refrigerator!!!
I’m Johnny Knoxville and welcome to jackass
The 6th guy was head bee guy.
how many years later did they develop cancer?
I mean why? We had already done mass experiments on Japan…did they not know what we had done?
Paywalled
Kind of interesting, but I feel like the more interesting story is the inhabited islands the US nuked while “testing” over 100 bombs. [Story](https://www.latimes.com/projects/marshall-islands-nuclear-testing-sea-level-rise/#:~:text=Between%201946%20and%201958%2C%20the,of%20people%20from%20their%20homes.) [Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Proving_Grounds)