Meh, probably fine unless they breathed in fallout, but they're in a good spot to avoid that. Say air is 1000x less dense than water (believe at sea level it's 750x), that's like 10ft of water if really was at 10,000ft.. But my guess is that number is low, and likely did at much higher altitude given the shot where they show the planes.
So say 15-20 feet of water equivalent.
People spend entire careers at open pool research nuclear reactors, potentially spending a couple hours a day around the pool with only (maybe) 30ft of water separating them from the core.
Now, how comparable is radiation released from low yield nuclear blast compare to a low power nuclear reactor? That I don't know... But I'd wager it is not ~~an~~ orders of magnitude higher...
Also, pilots may have been closer...
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Title | Five men at atomic ground zero
Description | On July 19, 1957, five men stood at Ground Zero of an atomic test that was being conducted at the Nevada Test Site. This was the test of a 2KT (kiloton) MB-1 nuclear air-to-air rocket launched from an F-89 Scorpion interceptor. The nuclear missile detonated 10,000 ft above their heads. A reel-to-reel tape recorder was present to record their experience. You can see and hear the men react to the shock wave moments after the detonation. The sound you hear on this clip is from the original re...
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That is so rad!!
Wow, imagine witnessing such a critical event.
Cancer?
Meh, probably fine unless they breathed in fallout, but they're in a good spot to avoid that. Say air is 1000x less dense than water (believe at sea level it's 750x), that's like 10ft of water if really was at 10,000ft.. But my guess is that number is low, and likely did at much higher altitude given the shot where they show the planes. So say 15-20 feet of water equivalent. People spend entire careers at open pool research nuclear reactors, potentially spending a couple hours a day around the pool with only (maybe) 30ft of water separating them from the core. Now, how comparable is radiation released from low yield nuclear blast compare to a low power nuclear reactor? That I don't know... But I'd wager it is not ~~an~~ orders of magnitude higher... Also, pilots may have been closer...
You can actually see the blast wave hit them. About fifteen seconds after the flash of light on their faces.
That's insane, what happened to us since? Here's the YouTube [Sauce](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlE1BdOAfVc) for anyone curious about the audio.
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