Manhattan Project: Girls Who Played Under a Strange Hot Snow without Knowing It Was a Deadly Substance · Global Voices

On July 16, 1945, a dozen girls of about 13 years old enjoyed a dance camp in a place in the desert of New Mexico, in the United States, when they were surprised by an unusual phenomenon. A huge number of white flakes began to fall from the sky. Wondered by this impossible snowfall for the Northern Summer, the young girls put on their swimsuits and, in a nearby river, began to play with the strange snow. Thus, they passed it through their face a…