'Oppenheimer' and the story behind those who lost their land to the lab
In 1942, the US Army gave 32 Hispano families on the Pajarito Plateau 48 hours to leave their homes so they could build the lab for atomic bomb construction.
The mushroom cloud of the first test of a hydrogen bomb, "Ivy Mike", as photographed on Enewetak, an atoll in the Pacific Ocean, in 1952, by a member of the United States Air Force's Lookout Mountain.(photo credit: Photographic Squadron/File Photo)ByREUTERSUpdated:
