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When America dropped the nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the world watched as the atomic age began. The effects of the bomb were devastating and linger to this day. No government or military has ever detonated a nuclear bomb during a war since. But they have detonated them for various other reasons—including a series of tests designed to give soldiers a taste of what nuclear war might feel like.
After World War II, the UK, USSR, and US detonated more than 2,000 atomic bombs. In Britain, 20,000 soldiers witnessed atomic blasts conducted by their own government. Only a few of them are still alive today and the nuclear glow of the mushroom cloud they witnessed still haunts them. "Nuclear detonations, that was the defining point in my life," Douglas Hern, a British soldier who experienced five nuclear bomb tests, told Motherboard.
"When the flash hit you, you could see the x-rays of your hands through your closed eyes," he said. "Then the heat hit you, and that was as if someone my size had caught fire and walked through me. It was an experience that was unearthing. It was so strange. There were guys with bruises and broken legs. We couldn't believe it. To say it was frightening is an understatement. I think it all shocked us into silence."
Source: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wjk3wb/what-does-a-nuclear-bomb-blast-feel-like
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 30 2018, @02:47AM (4 children)
The last time I've got nuked, my hot pocket was oozing with melted cheese.
(Score: 2) by qzm on Thursday August 30 2018, @06:14AM (3 children)
But.. but...
Shouldnt he be long dead from just about every kind of cancer imaginable?
I mean, he was directly exposed to 5 nuclear blasts... strong enough to see through his body, knock people down with broken legs, and make them feel like they were on fire.
And yet...
(Score: 2) by TheReaperD on Thursday August 30 2018, @07:00AM (2 children)
Like most things, small portions of the population would be resistant to radiation and/or cancer. Most of medical science ignores these outliers but, they exist in every category. Mine is resistance to chemicals (including medication, sadly) and electricity.
Ad eundum quo nemo ante iit
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 30 2018, @08:51AM (1 child)
Probably not exaggerated. Some people can handle 230v@50hz main and even three-phase (400/230v@50hz) lines with their bare hands: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjv_5w6WaRQ [youtube.com]
It might be common but people don't know since they haven't tried. Eh... Don't try please :D
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Friday August 31 2018, @03:19AM
Or maybe not. Discussion:
https://forum.cosmoquest.org/showthread.php?116671-Immunity-to-electric-shock [cosmoquest.org]
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.