Name: How the U.S. Government Used Veterans as Atomic Guinea Pigs | Op-Docs
Uploaded: 2020-03-30T03:37:51.000Z
Duration: 14 min 43 s
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I guess I'm a little perplexed right now,

Yeah, my wife's the only person I ever told.

I never told anybody — not my parents, not my brother,

not my best friends, not my wife, nobody.

and everything's O.K. It has affected me.

Hood was the biggest kiloton bomb blown up

The morning of July 5, 1957, about 4 in the morning,

I think it was a mile from ground zero or less.

And for protection, we just had our utility jackets,

these people were concerned, but they didn't know

were to crouch down, put our backs towards the shot,

And we got to the point that everybody's basically

I grabbed my helmet, put it up to my head about like that,

I'll never experience anything like it again.

brighter than the brightest day you ever saw.

I cannot begin to describe the light that came

When I came out of the blindness, I saw my hands.

And by this time, I actually saw the blood vessels

You could literally just see every bone in there —

everything, even the guy's bones and back

to go from through the back of your head, through your eyes,

that to get to your bones, that you could visually

The light faded, and it's like streaks of lightning

from the ground to the sky about every two

And then that faded, and it was like giant fireballs

When the wave hit me, it knocked me over.

put a whole bunch of shrapnel in my face.

And I had a hole in my neck and one in my lip.

And it felt just like you would take a red-hot iron,

Everybody started yelling, and some people calling out

for their mothers, and some of the trenches collapsed.

It's like I had lost it, and I don't know why,

The whole clump of ground 10 yards this way,

15 yards this way, 10 yards back over here —

standing there watching the mushroom cloud form.

of coming back and looking at the spectacular, spectacular

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