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That Time Five Guys Volunteered to Stand at Ground Zero of a Nuclear Blast (2019x137)

: 27, 2019

Join War Thunder for free using this link and get a premiu→→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 Follow Simon on social media: https://twitter.com/SimonWhistler https://www.instagram.com/simonwhistler/ Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut: That Time the U.S. Made a Nuclear Gun https://youtu.be/EgwgasETbtQ Can Shooting Plastic Explosive Really Set Them Off? https://youtu.be/46I7VTaLM6Q In this video: Unless there is a lead-lined refrigerator lying around, we’re guessing none of you reading this would be too keen on standing at ground zero of a nuclear blast. But it turns out this is exactly what six men chose to do with their afternoon in July of 1957- five of them even volunteered, with the sixth not told what he’d be ordered to do that day until he showed up to work… So who were these men, why were they there, and what happened after? Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2019/05/that-time-five-guys-volunteered-to-stand-at-ground-zero-of-a-nuclear-blast-just-to-see-what-would-happen/ Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIR-2_Genie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlE1BdOAfVc https://www.ctbto.org/specials/testing-times/19-july-1957-five-at-ground-zero/ http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/07/24/would-you-stand-under-a-nuclear-blast/#.XMpoFaR7mUk https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wjk3wb/what-does-a-nuclear-bomb-blast-feel-like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Plumbbob https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a21937/men-stood-under-nuclear-test-1957/ https://catalog.archives.gov/id/25979 https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/14/science/14atom.html?pagewanted=all https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_nLNcEbIC8 https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2012/07/16/156851175/five-men-agree-to-stand-directly-under-an-explo