This mad picture is the Russians doing a similar thing in 1961. They’re watching the Tsar Bomba, the most powerful bomb EVER dropped. And it was on their home soil!? It would give you third degree burns 100km from the detonation area. To put that in to perspective, if the bomb had gone off in Manchester, the people in Leicester would have been pork scratchings. Jeeeeeeeeez…. what plums.
And this is CG visuals of what they were watching, what a show…. if you like leukemia that is….
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In Nevada in 1952, 12 poor buggers were made to witness a detonation from a darkened trailer about sixteen kilometers from the point of detonation. Each of the human “observers” placed his face in a hood; A fraction of a second before the explosion, a shutter opened, exposing the left eye to the flash. Two subjects incurred retinal burns, at which point the project for that test series was terminated. What did they expect to happen, really?
Anyhow, I’m not sure exactly when this footage was from but it’s pretty eerie and pretty dark. And the darkest thing is that although the US aren’t doing this to their troops now, you can’t help but wonder what they are doing. Probably feeding them to aliens or getting them to lick Nessy’s underbelly. I don’t know.
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