U.S. ex-army engineer recounts experience of seeing 1st A-bomb test

Former U.S. army engineer Roger Rasmussen talks about his experience in Los Alamos, New Mexico, on April 3, 2015, of witnessing the world's first atomic bomb test at the Trinity Site in the same state in July 1945. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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