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Podcast: America Dissected
Episode: The Other Side of Oppenheimer
Description: Last summerâs blockbuster âOppenheimerâ took home best picture for a stirring portrayal of the man behind the worldâs most dangerous weapon. But thereâs a part the story left out: the devastation wrought by nuclear weapons testing on communities here in the US. Abdul reflects on the broader fallout of producing weapons of war. Then he talks to Tina Cordova, co-founder and Executive Director of the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium, and Dr. Chanese FortĂ©, a scientist with the Global Security Program of the Union of Concerned Scientists about the testing fallout â and what it spells for the future.