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RE: Five guys volunteer to stand under a mid-air atomic bomb detonation! (This blew my mind)(video)
Wasn't something similar done at Xmas Island, with a lot more troops as an experiment?
I think they were true cannon fodder!
Ummm Idk. Was it the one where they were down in trenches?
Not sure. I just vaguely remembering reading years ago, that a lot of military personnel were told to sit down and face away from the blast.
This is not what I read but here is a link to the first thing that came up with a search http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/industry/defence/10611985/Forgotten-victims-of-Britains-nuclear-tests-on-Christmas-Island.html
Ahhh, Thanks for adding more examples to my post.
Here is the one I was talking about.