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Big Science in New Mexico: Prometheus in the desert

This video appears in: Prometheus in the desert: from atom bombs to radio astronomy, New Mexico's scientific legacy

From the atomic bomb to the Very Large Array radio telescope, New Mexico has been America's laboratory for massive-scale science projects. We spent a day in the desert discovering what it all means.

Camera: Sam Thonis and Pablo Korona
Editor: Sam Thonis
Editorial: Jesse Hicks

Some additional footage provided by the Nuclear Weapons Vault:
http://archive.org/details/AtomicWeaponsTestsTrinitythroughBusterJangle

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