Nuclear Testing

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  1/25/2022
  

  Tularosa Downwinders: a 75 Year Wait for Justice

  Residents of New Mexico's Tularosa basin received no advance warning of the 1945 atomic bomb tests nor of the risks to their health. They've been excluded from relief legislation that has benefitted residents near the Nevada test sites and workers in uranium mines. 

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• SOURCE: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
  10/29/2021
  

  The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Nuclear Bomb

  by Alex Wellerstein

  Read a detailed account of the moment in the Cold War when the United States and Soviet Union contemplated, then developed and tested, nuclear weapons of horrifying power. 

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• 8/15/2021
  

  Children's Teeth, Collected Decades Ago, Can Show the Damage of Nuclear Testing

  by Lawrence Wittner and Joseph Mangano

  The Radiation and Public Health Project will use thousands of baby teeth collected for a discontinued 1960s study of radiation exposure to assess the health toll of nuclear testing. 

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• SOURCE: Axios
  7/15/2021
  

  Latinos Forgotten Victims of US Nuclear Testing

  Hispanic and Native residents of New Mexico who were excluded from the first Radiation Exposure Compensation Act are likely to be included in a bill to reauthorize the legislation.