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'We just did our job': Longview man among last of veterans who took part in nuclear testing

Though government records show most Operation Dominic veterans weren’t exposed to unsafe levels of radiation, Shivers believes otherwise.

LONGVIEW, Texas — In 1962, U.S. service members on Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean were kept in the dark about the danger they faced — even as nuclear bombs filled the morning sky with fire.

Thousands of U.S. troops took part in Operation Dominic, a Department of Defense nuclear testing program.

U.S. Air Force mechanic Billy Shivers, a native of Beulah who now lives in Longview, was part of the program.

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