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Top 10 Fascinating Stories Involving Nuclear Explosions
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The 1940s through to the 1960s saw nuclear attacks and tests that revealed the terrifying power of these devices. The World War II bombing of Hiroshima is famous but few realize what it did to the pilots of Enola Gay or that Australia was hit by a bomb twice as big. At the bizarre end of things, meet the guy who got nuked twice and the scientists who bombed beer and then drank it.