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Joshua Wheeler

Joshua Wheeler is from Alamogordo, New Mexico. He’s written extensively about the legacy of the Trinity test, including in his book Acid West, a collection of essays about the southern New Mexico border region. Acid West was named a best book of 2018 by Newsweek, The Paris Review, and Outside. Wheeler lives in New Orleans and teaches at Louisiana State University.

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In the Shadow of Oppenheimer

How popular narratives of the atomic age obscure the bomb’s first victims.