On July 19, 1957, the Nevada Test Site conducted a test of an unguided nuclear air-to-air rocket.
"My only regrets right now," Col. Bruce says, "are that everybody couldn't have been out here at ground zero with us."
"I had a call saying they needed me out for a special test," Yoshitake said, according to The Rafu Shimpo, a bilingual Japanese-English newspaper.
"I found out when I got to Nevada that I was going to be standing at Ground Zero.
Yoshitake developed stomach cancer.
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