ABC News(TULAROSA, N.M.) The Trinity Test, the detonation of the first atomic bomb in 1945, was a technical success the gadget, as it was codenamed, generated 18 kilotons of force, and the explosion set off the nuclear age. But many New Mexico residents consider it the beginning of a decades-long disaster.
Families near the test site have complained for generations about unusually high occurrences of cancer.
"I always tell people, This isn t normal cancer histories. This isn t normal health histories, " said Tina Cordova, the head of the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium, a group advocating for the communities around the test site.
Cordova founded the group back in 2005 and says that the original mission was to educate people on the potential health risks from nuclear fallout. They would hold town halls and presentations all over New Mexico. That s where, six years ago, Paul Pino learned that he and his family could have been affected.
"My brother died of st
ABC News(TULAROSA, N.M.) The Trinity Test, the detonation of the first atomic bomb in 1945, was a technical success the gadget, as it was codenamed, generated 18 kilotons of force, and the explosion set off the nuclear age. But many New Mexico residents consider it the beginning of a decades-long disaster.
Families near the test site have complained for generations about unusually high occurrences of cancer.
"I always tell people, This isn t normal cancer histories. This isn t normal health histories, " said Tina Cordova, the head of the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium, a group advocating for the communities around the test site.
Cordova founded the group back in 2005 and says that the original mission was to educate people on the potential health risks from nuclear fallout. They would hold town halls and presentations all over New Mexico. That s where, six years ago, Paul Pino learned that he and his family could have been affected.
"My brother died of st
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