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Here's What Would Happen If a Nuclear Bomb Landed Near You

Esquire Fri, Jan 27 1:15 PM PST 
We all know a nuclear war would be bad, but it's kind of abstract. Personally, I always just assumed I'd be vaporized if a nuclear bomb fell near me. Apparently not, according to this video, which provides a terrifying, in-depth look at just what would happen if you were close to a nuclear ground zero. The real problem, we discover, is that "close" is a relative term. For instance, if the bomb dropped on a clear night, people up to 53 miles away would experience flash blindness. People 7 miles away would get first-degree burns. Within 5 miles, it's third-degree burns—which, if they cover 24 percent or more of your body, are very likely to kill you. But we're just getting started: Within a 4 mile ...
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This photograph was the most agonizing thing I saw at Auschwitz

Business Insider Thu, Jan 26 9:00 PM PST 
I'd been dreading my visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau for months. It would be the hardest part of an already-difficult group trip through Poland and the Czech Republic that I'd signed up for on a whim before my 24th birthday. Auschwitz was the biggest of the Nazi concentration camps, where some 1.1 million people died before it was liberated on January 27, 1945 — 72 years ago today. But I knew the visit would bring a painful reality to my abstract understanding of the Holocaust, when 6 million Jews were exterminated by the Nazis. Like many of the 40 young Jewish New Yorkers on my trip, which was organized by  a nonprofit that ran programs for alumni of Birthright Israel (a non-profit that runs free ...
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