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The People of Los Alamos

Moviegoers were running to the cinemas this weekend to catch Christopher Nolan’s new Oppenheimer, but many people may not have noticed some historical inaccuracies in the film. Novelist and journalist Alisa Lynn Valés and her family are from the the Los Alamos area, where Oppenheimer built the atomic bomb, and she joined Sean to talk about the people who were forced to leave the area, to allow the scientists to build there...

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10.30 26 Jul 2023


The People of Los Alamos


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10.30 26 Jul 2023


Moviegoers were running to the cinemas this weekend to catch Christopher Nolan’s new Oppenheimer, but many people may not have noticed some historical inaccuracies in the film.

Novelist and journalist Alisa Lynn Valés and her family are from the the Los Alamos area, where Oppenheimer built the atomic bomb, and she joined Sean to talk about the people who were forced to leave the area, to allow the scientists to build there...


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