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In the bustling rural city of Richland, in south-eastern Washington, the signs of a nuclear past are all around.

A small museum explains its role in the Manhattan Project and its singular mission - [to] develop the world's first atomic bomb before the enemy might do the same". The city's high school sports team is still known as the Bombers, with a logo that consists of the letter R set with a mushroom cloud.