Saturday, July 21, 2012

Alex Wellerstein's brilliant nuke map

http://www.nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

NPR Story on 5 Air Force Officers who stand under an atomic bomb blast.

"On July 19, 1957, five Air Force officers and one photographer stood together on a patch of ground about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas. They'd marked the spot "Ground Zero. Population 5" on a hand-lettered sign hammered into the soft ground right next to them."

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2012/07/16/156851175/five-men-agree-to-stand-directly-under-an-exploding-nuclear-bomb

**** More frightening is the second video without the sound altering typically done in government videos. The silent cloud first. The bang and debris clatter second.