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I witnessed such an explosion up close once, during the Pope's 1981 trip to the Philippines.
Suddenly, the street erupts: motorcycle cops whizz by, a garbage truck plows through the waiting cars, there's an explosion up ahead, and people start running, terrified.
Half a mile from the explosion, up at Rockefeller Center and down at Macy's, unshielded onlookers would expect a slower death from radiation.
The pilot of another flight radioed Boston air traffic control to say: "We just saw an explosion up ahead of us here...about 16,000 feet or something like that.
Estimates vary, but in the US alone, around 40,000 soldiers – mainly men – are believed to have watched a nuclear bomb explosion up close.
About 40 nearby homes were evacuated, and some residents reported hearing the explosion up to a mile and a half away, Ms. West said.
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White smoke from an explosion would burst up from the cityscape of Baghdad as the sound echoed through the dark.
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Their findings, published recently in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, said the first test could have yielded an explosion of up to one kiloton, and the second of up to seven kilotons.
Then a thunderous explosion lit up the sky.
"It looked like the explosion came up through the elevator," said Ms. Puma, 33, of Staten Island.
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