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International Business Times
International Business Times
Business
Andrew MARSZAL

HISTORICAL FACTS: Ignored by oppenheimer atomic test victims speak out - Caught on Camera

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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