"They risked their lives to capture on film . . . . " things nuclear

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/14/science/14atom.html?_r=2&ref=science


The Bomb Chroniclers


They risked their lives to capture on film hundreds of blinding flashes, rising fireballs and mushroom clouds.

-snip-

Then there was radiation.

While many of the scientists who made atom bombs during the cold war became famous, the men who filmed what happened when those bombs were detonated made up a secret corps.

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Two new atomic documentaries, “Countdown to Zero” and “Nuclear Tipping Point,” feature archival images of the blasts. Both argue that the threat of atomic terrorism is on the rise and call for the strengthening of nuclear safeguards and, ultimately, the elimination of global arsenals.

As for the atomic cameramen, there aren’t that many left. “Quite a few have died from cancer,” George Yoshitake, 82, one of the survivors, said of his peers in an interview. “No doubt it was related to the testing.”

-long snip about the photographers and the horror they filmed-
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one of them who is still alive said:

"Mr. Yoshitake, the atomic cameraman, said the release and restoration of the images were healthy developments because their disclosure improved public understanding of the nuclear threat.

“It’s a good thing to show the horror,” he said.



yes, it is a good thing to show it.

[hayu_lol]

1. I remember a newsreel just after...

the Bikini Atoll blasts that showed US Navy and scientific personnel climbing all over the ships that hadn't been sunk by the blast. None of them wore any sort of protective gear...none.

Yeah, the cameramen were there too. Thats where the 'action' was.