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New Oppenheimer film drives up crowds at site of first nuclear test explosion

  • The Trinity atomic test site is set for large crowds on its next open house due to the movie "Oppenheimer."
  • The Trinity bomb, developed via the Manhattan Project led by J. Robert Oppenheimer, was detonated in 1945.
  • Witnesses described the test explosion as both beautiful and terrifying.
  • Less than a month after Trinity, the US dropped atomic bombs on Japan, leading to the end of WWII.
  • Interest in Oppenheimer's life story has surged thanks to the recent biopic about the physicist.
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