Sunday, February 19, 2012

Duck And Cover



Duck And Cover... Astonishing Video Shows U.S. 'Ground Grunt' Guinea Pigs Taking Part In Atomic Bomb Tests In The 1950s... With Only Trenches To Protect Them From Radiation -- Daily Mail

They were the nuclear guinea pigs of the Cold War.

And this is the shocking film to show how U.S. Marines were used in hundreds of experiments by the US military to test the limits of nuclear bombs between 1951 and 1957.

During many of those tests, soldiers who thought of themselves as ‘ground grunts’ and were sworn to secrecy witnessed the atomic explosions first-hand, and from close range, before the devastating health risks of those bombs were fully understood.

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My Comment: Serving your country did not include this.

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