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5-29-14

Soldiers Watching an Atomic Bomb Explosion (Video)

Related Link Utah State Historical Society: History of Downwinders.

This video, from the Prelinger archive, shows U.S. military footage of an early 1950s atomic test witnessed by American soldiers.

This video is by the son of an atomic veteran who died from Leukemia.