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75 Years After Trinity: The Human Cost of Nuclear Tests via The Diplomat

Posted on 2020/07/16 by nfield

Seventy-five years ago today, the United States conducted the Trinity test, the world’s first nuclear detonation. In the ensuing years, the U.S. ultimately conducted more than 1,000 nuclear tests, half of all known tests conducted by the world’s nine nuclear nations since 1945. Now, … Continue reading →

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Black Hole/Atomic City (State of Decay) via Sanitary Tortilla Factory

Posted on 2019/08/01 by nfield

Black Hole/Atomic City (State of Decay) August 2 – 30, 2019 OPENING RECEPTION: August 2, 6-9pm  Black Hole/Atomic City (State of Decay) is an exhibition dedicated to alternative stories related to “the nuclear business” in New Mexico since the dawn of … Continue reading →

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Trinity: “The most significant hazard of the entire Manhattan Project” via Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

Posted on 2019/07/15 by nfield

By Kathleen M. Tucker, Robert Alvarez For the past several years, the controversy over radioactive fallout from the world’s first atomic bomb explosion in Alamogordo, New Mexico on July 16, 1945—code-named Trinity—has intensified. Evidence collected by the New Mexico health … Continue reading →

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Cancer study of nuclear test site expected in 2019 via the New York Post

Posted on 2018/08/08 by nfield

ALBUQUERQUE, NM — A long-anticipated study into the cancer risks of New Mexico residents living near the site of the world’s first atomic bomb test likely will be published in 2019, the National Cancer Institute announced. Institute spokesman Michael Levin … Continue reading →

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Downwinders continue their fight to educate public on negative effects of atomic bomb testing via Ruidoso News

Posted on 2018/04/21 by nfield

Members of the Tularosa Downwinders were at the Trinity site off U.S. 380 again this year as it opened for the public to tour the area on White Sands Missile Range where the atomic bomb was tested for use during World War II. […] … Continue reading →

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The beauty created by the ‘Destroyer of Worlds’ via UNM Newsroom

Posted on 2017/11/04 by nfield

The cultural phenomenon of nuclear fallout as a collectable By Katie Williams November 02, 2017 […] Part of the heritage Pfeiffer is speaking of is the physical legacy of atomic bombs. A jewel-like mineral Trinitite, was created from the first detonation … Continue reading →

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Trinity Bomb downwinders fight for compensation via KOAT Action News

Posted on 2017/07/16 by nfield

Second and third generation downwinders are battling health affects from overexposure to radiation, experts say ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act offers people who contracted certain cancers and other serious diseases from exposure to radiation from nuclear weapons … Continue reading →

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Downwinders continue their fight for compensation via The Ruidoso News

Posted on 2017/04/06 by nfield

wo times each year when the Trinity Site is opened to the public, members of the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium show up with signs to remind people that many victims were produced in New Mexico from the explosion of the … Continue reading →

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New health survey at nuclear test site details decades of illnesses, deaths via The Santa Fe New Mexican

Posted on 2017/02/11 by nfield

More than 70 years after the detonation of the first atomic bomb, residents of Southern New Mexico who were unwittingly exposed to the fallout, as well as their descendants and advocates, have released a new report that details the decades … Continue reading →

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Trinity Test Site Tour Met With Protest via KRWG TV/FM

Posted on 2016/10/03 by norma field

New Mexico residents living near the site of the first atomic bomb have held their annual demonstration as visitors caravanned into the Trinity Test Site for a tour. The Alamogordo Daily News reports Tularosa Basin Downwinders protested Saturday as caravanners … Continue reading →

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