Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100612:18:58:00
Standing when this nuclear device was detonated? >> oh, yes. i was standing at the control point. it's exciting to know it went well and everything worked as we expected. >> reporter: this 80-year-old is one of the few people you will likely meet who saw not one but nine nuclear explosions. he helped run project plow share, a program in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s to find peaceful, practical uses for low radiation nuclear devices. when you see what's going on in the gulf, did it come into your mind this is a perfect use for some sort of small nuclear device? >> it certainly did. knowing the rus...
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