New Mexico was ground zero for the first atom bomb explosion, but the "downwinder" farmers and ranchers living near the Trinity test site, and the Navajo miners who dug the uranium, have been shut out for fallout compensation.
New Mexico was ground zero for the first atom bomb explosion, but the "downwinder" farmers and ranchers living near the Trinity test site, and the Navajo miners who dug the uranium, have been shut out for fallout compensation.
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In a rather ironic twist, Christopher Nolan was unable to shoot at the real site of the atomic bomb, because the military still uses the area for explosions.
On July 26, 1945, after news spread across the island of Tinian in the Marianas, Navy Seabee Clarence Piper joined others to see the USS Indianapolis, a nearly 600-foot-long Portland-class heavy …