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Five Men Agree To Stand Directly Under An Exploding Nuclear Bomb

NPR’s Robert Krulwich has an amazing long Cold War story to tell. WITH VIDEO, DAMMIT!:

They weren’t crazy. They weren’t being punished. All but one volunteered to do this (which makes it all the more astonishing.)

File under “things that actually really happened that you will want to read about right now.”

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