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Political leaders, radiation victims rally to expand compensation
"An estimated 1,054 nuclear tests were conducted in the U.S., including 215 above ground, before the 1992 ban on explosive tests, according to federal data."
Trinity: “The most significant hazard of the entire Manhattan Project”
Evidence collected by the New Mexico health department but ignored for some 70 years shows an unusually high rate of infant mortality in New Mexico counties downwind from the explosion and raises a serious question whether or not the first victims of the first atomic explosion might have been American children.
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Accounting for Unfissioned Plutonium from the Trinity Atomic Bomb Test
"Two possible modes of intake of plutonium from Trinity are most important with respect to potential health effects: inhalation of descending fallout and inhalation at later times from the resuspension of activity on the surface of the ground."
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A Deadly Love Affair: New Mexico, Physics, and the Film Oppenheimer
"In southern New Mexico, the communities surrounding the Trinity site continue to deal with the legacy of illness and death created by the plutonium bomb called the Gadget. New research shows that fallout from the Trinity test reached forty-six states plus Canada and Mexico."
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