It always amazed me that the way to answer the question
"How traumatised would our troops be if a nuke was dropped near to them?" was done by dropping a nuke near to them.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Buster–Jangle
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Thrill_My_Chinchilla is old and unimproved, Tue 29 Jan 2019, 20:27,
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Yeeech - I was curious about the results
And found this - pretty grim stuff, but fascinating nonetheless.
nuclearexhaust.wordpress.com/2014/04/30/witness-accounts-of-human-guinea-pig-trials-in-the-atomic-1950s/
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tarka_dall Like normal dall, only a bit more spicy, Wed 30 Jan 2019, 7:44,
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