By Brad Wallis, Lake of the Woods

Does our government lie to us?

Well, yes, every hour of every day.

Why? To save us from some terrible truth? Or, maybe just to avoid embarrassment?

IMHO, it is generally the latter.

I want to take a minute here to fix one such lie left over from July 16, 1945.

On that day, the United States…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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Brad Wallis’ jar of trinitite

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