Posts Tagged ‘Oppenheimer’
Downwinders: Fatal Harvest
As nuclear testing proceeded throughout the 1950s, evidence began to emerge showing that radioactive fallout was spreading throughout most of the continental United States. Amidst a growing epidemic of fallout-related cancer, Downwinders began to fight back, first through the courts, and later in Congress. (Part 2 of 2)
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In the race to develop the atomic bomb, Oppenheimer’s Trinity test inadvertently exposed thousands of unsuspecting American citizens to toxic radioactive fallout. This test marked the beginning of a decade-long top-secret campaign of above-ground nuclear testing in the United States. Delve into the first-hand accounts of Downwinders, the earliest casualties of the atomic age. (Part 1 of 2)
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