re: Some hi-res footage of vehicles vs nukes.

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If you're fortunate enough, you'll be incinerated by the initial blast. I'd consider that an act of mercy.

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In a nuclear exchange, the lucky ones are close enough that their nervous system doesn't have time to register what's happening before they're vaporized. The unluckiest are either the ones caught up over the next few hours in the firestorm around ground zero or the ones caught downwind in the days immediately after the blast getting bathed in fission products.

Cool post. Love this stuff.

Any of you guys that are interested in this stuff should read some of Richard Rhodes' books. Particularly The Making of the Atomic Bomb and Dark Sun.

No. The cameras were not that close to the blast but they were shielded. My uncle worked at EG&G who invented the tech and did the photography for most of the atomic tests.

The most difficult thing is not shooting these movies, but the actual still photographs. Synchronizing the blast, the shutter and the necessity for super high shutter speeds had to be designed/invented. My uncle was on the design team with old man Edgerton.

This is to get shots like this: