The Time We Nuked Five Men to Prove a Point

On July 19th, 1957, a 2-kiloton nuclear warhead exploded above the heads of five volunteers during “Shot John” of the Operation Plumbbob series of US nuclear tests. Why would anyone volunteer to be at ground zero for such a blast, and what happened to them?

SHOW NOTES:
https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich...
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/25979
https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/nukevault/...
https://www.sandboxx.us/blog/americas...

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