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TIL about Jimmy Robinson, a US Air Force Piloted that died (marked MIA officially) after damage sustained flying through the mushroom cloud of Ivy Mike, the first thermonuclear bomb detonation. The flight was to gather information regarding the composition of the cloud, his body was never found.

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