Posted on 07/30/2012 8:30:55 AM PDT by America_Right
George Yoshitake, Don Luttrell, and four other officers stood directly underneath an exploding nuclear warhead 55 years ago -- and lived to tell their tale.
The blast was just a test, a bit of Cold War marketing designed to make the concept of nuclear war less scary for the public, but the 2-kiloton atomic explosion set off over the Nevada nuclear test site (and over the heads of those six men) was very real.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/07/27/how-does-it-feel-to-stand-under-nuclear-bomb/?intcmp=features#ixzz227VcfW9E
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Must have been the warhead of the “Genie” nuclear A-A missile...
“...all six members of the group have had cancer, with four dying of it.”
Apparently the League of Long Lasting Lawyers hasn't found them, nobody mentioned "lawsuit" in this article.
6 out of 6 got cancer and four died in their 40s or 50s from it.
I’m a little surprised that the radiation from the tests wasn’t a real concern even in the fifties.
How did the recorder continue to work? Wouldn’t the EMP fry it?
Unlike semiconductors, vacuum tubes tolerate the over-voltages caused by EMP.
There's also little to no EMP from an explosion in the middle of the atmosphere.
He, himself, was born with a cleft palate that required surgery, and his father suffered health problems in the decades afterward.
One of the anecdotes about the Trinity test was how disconcerting Edward Teller's slathering on sunscreen was among others in the bunker as they waited for the countdown.
Never thought about EMP potentially affecting the electrical shutter.
First rule of the military: NEVER volunteer for anything. You are gonna get ordered to do shiite anyways.
Ok how old are these guys? If in their 30s in 1957 they gotta be in their late 80s or 90s today. If that is accurate then someone has to explain their longevity.
All men after the age of 70 have "cancer". Our prostate gland has a timer and most start having signs of cells with nuclear anaplasia. The advances in cardiology and smoking cessation pushed life expectancies for men out of the 60 decade and into the 70 and 80 decades. We all die of something so instead of buying it at age 65 from a "coronary" we go from these slow growing cancers of the prostate and when that gets treated successfully it will be something else.
There were concerns about the effect of radiation from above ground nuke test during the 50's. Newscasts featured fallout pattern maps, etc. Some may also remember the Strontium 90 in milk alerts. The end result were the test ban treaties of the 60's. However the environmental wacko movement was embryonic and the Feds ran a masterful "your friend the atom" propaganda campaign to augment the US position during the Cold War.
“...League of Long Lasting Lawyers...”
LOL.
The warhead was relatively small < 2KT and the detonation occurred in the lower atmosphere. ~10,000 ft. Hence, less EMP. The electronics were more likely vacuum tube or simple transistor, not IC. Hence, more resistant to EMP.
The warhead was relatively small < 2KT and the detonation occurred in the lower atmosphere. ~10,000 ft. Hence, less EMP. The electronics were more likely vacuum tube or simple transistor, not IC. Hence, more resistant to EMP.
Takes an old fart like me to remember what it was like back in those days.
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