New Mexico was ground zero for the first atom bomb explosion, but the "downwinder" farmers and ranchers living near the Trinity test site, and the Navajo miners who dug the uranium, have been shut out for fallout compensation.
New Mexico was ground zero for the first atom bomb explosion, but the "downwinder" farmers and ranchers living near the Trinity test site, and the Navajo miners who dug the uranium, have been shut out for fallout compensation.
Thousands of New Mexicans have had to deal with a potentially deadly problem for decades – radiation exposure. This week, Congress made moves to increase benefits for radiation victims, but some say it's not enough.
For more than 40 years, millions of tons of Uranium ore were mined from Navajo lands to make nuclear weapons. Thousands of workers were exposed to deadly radiation. Those workers are about to lose funding to cover their health costs.
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