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British Reaction to U.S. Nuclear Tests

On September 5, 1961, President John F. Kennedy ordered U.S. nuclear testing to resume, prompting British citizens to flock to the U.S. embassy in protest. A news reporter on the scene gets varying reactions from the British public.

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