'Downwinders' from New Mexico communities that lived in the shadow of the 1945 test want their serious health struggles to finally be acknowledged.
Japan. The atomic bombs dropped on the two cities had been developed in Tularosa’s own backyard
“They were counting on us to be unsophisticated and uneducated and unable to stick up for ourselves,” said Tina Cordova, a Tularosa native who for 18 years has led the, which she co-founded after being diagnosed with thyroid cancer. “We’re not those people anymore.” The debris caked the pillowcases. A powder coated their car. Long after the seeming storm had settled, “snowflakes kept falling,” he said. Weeks later, a neighbor’s chickens began dying. “We … are still paying the price,” he added.the fallout floated to 46 states, Mexico and Canada within 10 days. In 28 of 33 New Mexico counties, it estimates the accumulation of radioactive material was higher than required under the federal compensation program.— has paid out more than $2.
To many here, scientific proof is unnecessary. They say the evidence is clear in their family albums, at town gatherings and funerals. Though Tularosa has grown some in the ensuing years, its population remains only a couple thousand. Adobe houses line its still and sunbaked streets. Pecan and pistachio orchards grow just outside of town.Hinkle never considered leaving; she raises horses, cattle and vegetables she thought were the cleanest she could eat until she began wondering whether they were affected by contaminated soil. She has no plans to sit through “Oppenheimer.” Any glorification of the bomb, she said, “ticks me off.
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