{"id":5518,"date":"2012-07-18T06:14:22","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T14:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=5518"},"modified":"2012-07-17T13:18:18","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T21:18:18","slug":"from-npr-five-men-agree-to-stand-directly-under-an-exploding-nuclear-bomb-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/18\/from-npr-five-men-agree-to-stand-directly-under-an-exploding-nuclear-bomb-video\/","title":{"rendered":"(from NPR)  &#8216;Five Men Agree To Stand Directly Under An Exploding Nuclear Bomb&#8217; (VIDEO!!!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AN EXCERPT:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong> On July 19, 1957, five Air Force officers and one photographer stood together on a patch of ground about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas. They&#8217;d marked the spot &#8220;Ground Zero. Population 5&#8221; on a hand-lettered sign hammered into the soft ground right next to them&#8230;.As we watch, directly overhead, two F-89 jets roar into view, and one of them shoots off a nuclear missile carrying an atomic warhead&#8230;.They wait. There is a countdown; 18,500 feet above them, the missile is detonated and blows up. Which means, these men intentionally stood directly underneath an exploding 2-kiloton nuclear bomb. One of them, at the key moment (he&#8217;s wearing sunglasses), looks up. You have to see this to believe it.<\/p>\n<p>TO READ STORY &amp; WATCH VIDEO, CLICK IMAGE:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/krulwich\/2012\/07\/16\/156851175\/five-men-agree-to-stand-directly-under-an-exploding-nuclear-bomb\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5519\" title=\"atomic_test\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/atomic_test_wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/atomic_test_wide.jpg 462w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/atomic_test_wide-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>TO READ ALL ZBLOG POSTS <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>TO READ THE JUNE\/JULY Z <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/krulwich\/2012\/07\/16\/156851175\/five-men-agree-to-stand-directly-under-an-exploding-nuclear-bomb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AN EXCERPT:\u00a0\u00a0 On July 19, 1957, five Air Force officers and one photographer stood together on a patch of ground about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas. They&#8217;d marked the spot &#8220;Ground Zero. Population 5&#8221; on a hand-lettered sign hammered into the soft ground right next to them&#8230;.As we watch, directly overhead, two F-89 jets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5518"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5521,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5518\/revisions\/5521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}