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Transcription: At the time of the explosion we were wearing Polaroid welders glasses. They were so dark that even the tropical sun showed through them as nothing more than a vague pinpoint of light. Even then the explosion, when eventually it came, was so bright that it had the same effect as if night had been turned into day. A few seconds later, when it was safe to take off our glasses, we looked out towards the target and saw a vast ball of fire. It was about 2,000 feet in the air and half a mile in diameter. This fire, which generated almost 10 million degrees of heat, began rocketing up into the heavens ...