What it was like to live at the Los Alamos lab site during the Manhattan Project

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Buildings around Ashley Pond at the Los Alamos Project Y Site in 1942
The Los Alamos Ranch School buildings in 1942, which became part of the Los Alamos Project Y site.

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Long after Oppenheimer, the US is still paying benefits to people who were exposed to radiation from nuclear tests

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A billowing white mushroom cloud, mottled with orange, pushes through a layer of clouds during Operation Ivy, the first test of a hydrogen bomb, at Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
A mushroom cloud produced by the first test of a hydrogen bomb during Operation Ivy at Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

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'Oppenheimer' leaves out New Mexicans exposed to radiation from the Manhattan Project, despite local efforts to contact filmmakers

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Trinity Test
The mushroom cloud of the first atomic explosion at Trinity Test Site near Alamagordo, New Mexico.

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