Local 'atomic veteran' paid back for lifetime of suffering

"I did not volunteer to go there. They volunteered me to go there," he said.

Bolden says he was placed in foxholes about 3 miles from a hydrogen bomb to show how the human body would withstand a nuclear blast.

Now, more than six decades later, Bolden suffers from multiple cancers and eye issues, each with a heavy emotional and financial cost.

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Local 'atomic veteran' paid back for lifetime of suffering

A local 'atomic veteran' is finally receiving compensation for being exposed to nuclear tests that took place in the 1950s.