Opinion: The atomic bomb laid down the marker for humanity’s era of catastrophic change https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-09-03/j-robert-oppenheimer-nuclear-weapon-anthropocene-climate-change
The lake’s record shifts abruptly in 1950, when plutonium shows up, drifting across the continent from nuclear bomb tests in Nevada and the Pacific.
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