People in New Mexico near where the Trinity Test occurred were never included in a law to help victims of nuclear testing sites.
Paul Pino, a Trinity Test downwider from Carrizozo, N.M., protests outside the Trinty Test site as tourists travel to visit it. Photo: Courtesy of 47th State Films
If the law isn't extended and expanded to include Trinity Test victims and those injured in uranium mines on the Navajo Nation, those victims may never be compensated for is a dramatic finish for downwinder activists in New Mexico, who have been trying to get Congress to act for decades.to Nevada Test Site downwinders. Uranium workers in other states were later added, but New Mexico and Navajo Nation residents were excluded."This isn't about a handout.
"The Speaker understands and appreciates Sen. Hawley's position and is working closely with interested members and stakeholders to chart a path forward for the House." Henry Herrera describes in September 2021 seeing the Trinity Test explosion from his parents' Tularosa, N.M., home in 1945. He died inTina Cordova, co-founder of the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium, tells Axios the cost of the Trinity Test and other nuclear tests has been passed to American citizens who never asked to be guinea pigs.the U.S. Army detonated an atomic bomb developed at the then-secret community of Los Alamos.
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