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Giving Guide: UCA Foundation Inc.

The UCA Foundation Inc., a private corporation nonprofit, exists to support the University of Central Arkansas and its mission.

No 'Oppenheimer' fanfare for those caught in first atomic bomb's fallout

TULAROSA, N.M. - A strong rumble woke 13-year-old Lucy Benavidez Garwood in the darkness, shaking the three-room adobe house where she and her family lived and rattling dishes in the kitchen cupboard. Neighbors who gathered that morning agreed it must have been an earthquake. They learned the truth several weeks later when U.S. forces attacked Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. The atomic bombs dropped on the two cities had been developed in Tularosa's own backyard - that pre-dawn test blast jolting

No 'Oppenheimer' fanfare for those caught in first atomic bomb's fallout

No 'Oppenheimer' fanfare for those caught in first atomic bomb's fallout

“Downwinders” from New Mexico communities that lived in the shadow of the 1945 atomic bomb test want their serious health struggles to finally be acknowledged.

No 'Oppenheimer' fanfare for those caught in first atomic bomb's fallout