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Episode 536: The Manhattan Project Part IV - I Am Become Death

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The Trinitite Test

Oppenheimer painted himself as a solemn individual contemplating his place in human history. Trinity turned the desert sand into a light green reflective glass that they ended up calling trinitite. If you look up a picture of trinitite, it looks like if scabs were made of boogers.

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