'Oppenheimer had no qualms about displacing people from their homelands,' says a professor from New Mexico, whose great-grandparents were evicted from the ranch to build the lab for the Manhattan Project.
the eponymous character played by Cillian Murphy says the proposed site for a secret atomic weapons lab in northern New Mexico has only a boys’ school and Indians performing burial rites.In 1942, the US Army gave 32 Hispano families on the Pajarito Plateau 48 hours to leave their homes and land, in some cases at gunpoint, to build the lab that would create the world’s first atomic bombs, according to relatives of those removed and a former lab employee.
Martinez has spent decades campaigning for the evicted homesteaders and the rights of Hispano, Native, women, and other lab employees and has won two class action suits relating to equal pay and treatment for them. Marcel Torres, whose family has lived in the Penasco area since the 1700s, worked in the lab’s most secret sectors for 35 years as a machinist helping build nuclear weapons – to, he said, “try and prevent a world war.”
The Department of Labor set up a compensation fund for those affected but it took years for families to be paid, said Martinez, who served on New Mexico’s state human rights commission in the early 2000s. “Taking land for Los Alamos was not an aberration, it’s what the United States had been doing since 1848,” said State Historian of New Mexico Rob Martinez, whose great uncle worked at the lab.Today Los Alamos County, where the lab is based, is one of the richest and best-educated in the United States. Neighboring Rio Arriba County, which is 91% Hispanic and Native American, is among the country’s poorest, with the lowest academic scores.
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