Think about the horrific, global carnage wrought twice in the pre-atomic era of the last century, and not repeated since then.
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One group was born in the mid-1950s during the era of atomic testing.
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This allowed him to age or "date" a person by examining the brain cells a high carbon-14 count means the person was conceived in the era of atomic testing.