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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlE1BdOAfVc
...dit zouden ze nu nooit meer doen, "nuclear testban" of niet...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/2 ... 87233.htmlOn July 19, 1957, five men stood at Ground Zero of an atomic test that was being conducted at the Nevada Test Site.
This was the test of a 2KT (kiloton) MB-1 nuclear air-to-air rocket launched from an F-89 Scorpion interceptor.
The nuclear missile detonated 10,000 ft above their heads.
A reel-to-reel tape recorder was present to record their experience. You can see and hear the men react to the shock wave moments after the detonation.
The placard reading "Ground Zero; Population Five" was made by Colonel Arthur B. "Barney" Oldfield, the Public Information Officer for the Continental Air Defense Command in Colorado Spring who arranged for the volunteers to participate.
The five volunteers were:
Colonel Sidney Bruce
Lt. Colonel Frank P. Ball (technical advisor to the Steve Canyon tv show)
Major Norman "Bodie" Bodinger
Major John Hughes
Don Lutrel
and George Yoshitake, the cameraman (who wasn't a volunteer)
see George discuss his work photographing atomic and nuclear explosions in "Atomic Filmmakers."
George Yoshitake, Nuclear Test Photographer, Recalls Filming Nuclear Blast 55 Years Ago
"Yoshitake had filmed other nuclear tests in the Pacific, but always from a distance, he said.
So when he found out about this assignment the night before the test, which CBS News reports was the only test of its kind ever conducted, he asked what protective gear he'd be given.
"They said 'none,'" he recalled.
"I had a baseball hat and I put that on just in case."
The video of the test opens with the five Air Force officers huddled together, looking up as two F-89 Scorpion fighter jets approach in the sky above them.
Staked in the ground next to the men is a sign -- which Yoshitake said he made -- that reads, "Ground Zero: Population 5."
When the countdown reaches zero, one of the jets releases a missile tipped with a nuclear warhead.
"We felt a heat pulse," a narrator says. "A very bright light -- a fireball. It is red. The sky looks black about it. It is boiling above us...
http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2012/ ... clear-bombA lot of you wrote in to ask what happened to the five men in the blog post above, who, in 1957 stood under an exploding atomic bomb. Did they get cancer? Did they suffer later on? Are they still with us?
We checked, of course. I did find a list of the people who were in the film.
is zeker het lezen waard!
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