The Unknown Hispano History of the Manhattan Project

During opening weekend, Oppenheimer, raked in$80.5 million, second to Barbie. While the film Oppenheimer is about physicist Robert Oppenheimer and his efforts to create the atomic bomb, what many movie goes do not know, is that this "near-desolate" land where all this was taking place, was actually not empty. It was home to indigenous people and to several Hispano families. They were displaced for Oppenheimer's labs, then, on July 16th, 1945, these same communities, the downwinders, lives were changed forever.

On today's episode, Cristina tells Carmen about the less known history of the Manhattan project, the Hispano communities displaced by the construction of the labs and the Hispanos, known as downwinders, who were affected after the test bomb was detonated.

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Sources

https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/in-the-shadow-of-oppenheimer/

http://lanl-the-rest-of-the-story.blogspot.com/2008/07/lab-workers-awarded-12-million-by-sarah.html?m=1

https://www.justice.gov/civil/common/reca

https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/voices/oral-histories/rosario-martinez-fiorillos-interview/

https://www.rehumanizeintl.org/post/sacrificed-in-the-name-of-global-power-how-us-nuclear-policy-harmed-native-american-nations#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=16900514411331&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rehumanizeintl.org%2Fpost%2Fsacrificed-in-the-name-of-global-power-how-us-nuclear-policy-harmed-native-american-nations

https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/ahf/history/hispanos-los-alamos/

https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/ahf/history/civilian-displacement-los-alamos-nm/