Jul 17, 2023
Collateral damage: American civilian survivors of the 1945 Trinity test
Posted by 21st Century Tech Blog in categories: government, military
America’s civilian survivors of the Trinity atomic bomb test in 1945 described as move on Oppenheimer is released.
The Trinity test site was chosen, in part, for its supposed remove from human inhabitation. Yet nearly half-a-million people were living within a 150-mile radius of the explosion, with some as close as 12 miles away. None were warned or evacuated by the US government ahead of time.