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  • BENJAMÍN G. ROSADO

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Updated on Friday, March 19, 2021 - 16:36

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    The radioactive rabbits of Palomares

March 8 marked the 55th anniversary of the famous Fraga bath in Meyba.

The press devoted covers to

Operation Thunderball

(in reference to the latest installment of the 007 saga) and

public opinion believed the official version:

that the American soldiers deployed in Palomares collected every last gram of plutonium disseminated after the impact on the ground. In fact, it was all part of a

marketing

campaign

orchestrated by the wife of the US ambassador to Spain,

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