Standing under Ground Zero

[MrScorpio]

[Plucketeer]

1. "Folks, it was just beautiful."

Wonder if these test subjects are alive today?

[WhoIsNumberNone]

3. 55 years later? Probably not.

A better question would be if they were alive in 1977.

[Plucketeer]

7. Or even '67 nt

[WhoIsNumberNone]

8. Actually I've since gone and read the article on NPR

It was only a little nuke (2 kilotons) exploded 3 miles above their heads. It seems they all lived to a ripe old age, and at least one of them may still be alive. Now as to anybody who may have been living downwind...

[Plucketeer]

9. Thanks

[WhoIsNumberNone]

2. Where did they find these five suckers?

Maybe they'd be interested in an adjustable rate mortgage?

[FailureToCommunicate]

4. GOd help all the unknowing citizens down wind of these tests...

http://www.amfir.com/AmFirstInst/Transcripts/Fetzer,_James/2012/Art/Fig-12-Fallout-US.jpg

[proReality]

5. Did they volunteer for this?

Were they ordered to stand there and be guinea pigs? Or was it just a macho thing that 5 idiots couldn't resist doing?

I'd be interested to know if they all eventually got cancer of one kind or another.

Well, I discovered what happened to them: http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2012/07/16/156851175/five-men-agree-to-stand-directly-under-an-exploding-nuclear-bomb

[pam4water]

6. Really bad idea but reading the NRP article the explosion was 3.5 miles up.