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International Business Times
International Business Times
Business
Andrew MARSZAL

Ignored By 'Oppenheimer,' Atomic Test Victims Speak Out

The Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium are still fighting for compensation for families affected by radiation from the first atomic bomb test in 1945 (Credit: AFP)

Wesley Burris was fast asleep in bed when the world's first atomic bomb exploded just 25 miles from his front door.

A blinding light filled the home in the New Mexico desert, before the impossible force of the blast shattered its windows, spraying glass across the four-year-old boy and his brother.

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