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      A yellow sign saying, "Caution: Radioactive Materials" is attached to a chain-linked fence at the Trinity Site.

      Oppenheimer Ignores the First Victims of the Nuclear Era

      The movie repeats the myth that the New Mexico bomb site was in a desolate area with “nothing for 40 miles in either direction.”

      Connor Echols
      Jul 25, 2023

      On July 16, 1945, the world ended. Or at least it seemed that way to residents of the Tularosa Basin in New Mexico.

      Unbeknownst to local civilians, J. Robert Oppenheimer had chosen their backyard as the proving ground for the world’s first nuclear weapon. The explosion, which U.S. officials publicly claimed to be an accident at a local ammunition depot, tore through the morning sky, leaving a 40,000-foot-tall cloud of radioactive debris that would cake the surrounding area with dust for days on end.

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