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Bill Woodman is a former US Navy nuclear missile submarine commander, who shares his rich experiences from joining the US Naval Academy in 1964 to commanding two SSBN submarines, the USS James Monroe and the USS Alabama during the Cold War.
 
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Carter told Milnes he felt the long-term effects of the exposure to the radiation.

"We were fairly well instructed then on what nuclear power was, but for about six months after that I had radioactivity in my urine," the former president said. "They let us get probably a thousand times more radiation than they would now. It was in the early stages and they didn't know."

Carter remained in the Navy for a year more before he was honorably discharged in October 1953 so that he could take over his family's peanut business.
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Future president Jimmy Carter in the main control room of USS K-1 (SSK-1) between June and October 1952. (U.S. Navy)
 
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