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Residents near New Mexico nuclear test site seek Obama visit

FILE - This July 16, 1945 photo, shows an aerial view after the first atomic explosion at the Trinity Test site, in New Mexico. Residents of Tularosa, an historic Hispanic village located next to the Trinity Test site, are praising President Obama's plan to visit Hiroshima the Japanese city where the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb. However, they also want Obama to visit their village where they say generations of descendants have suffered from various cancers and health problems resulting from the Trinity Test in a remote stretch of New Mexico desert. (AP Photo/File)
FILE - This July 16, 1945 photo, shows an aerial view after the first atomic explosion at the Trinity Test site, in New Mexico. Residents of Tularosa, an historic Hispanic village located next to the Trinity Test site, are praising President Obama's plan to visit Hiroshima the Japanese city where the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb. However, they also want Obama to visit their village where they say generations of descendants have suffered from various cancers and health problems resulting from the Trinity Test in a remote stretch of New Mexico desert. (AP Photo/File) FILE - This July 16, 1945 photo, shows an aerial view after the first atomic explosion at the Trinity Test site, in New Mexico. Residents of Tularosa, an historic Hispanic village located next to the Trinity Test site, are praising President Obama's plan to visit Hiroshima the Japanese city where the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb. However, they also want Obama to visit their village where they say generations of descendants have suffered from various cancers and health problems resulting from the Trinity Test in a remote stretch of New Mexico desert. (AP Photo/File)

By Associated Press 2 min read

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – Residents of a historic Hispanic village near the site where the U.S. government tested the first atomic bomb have praised President Barack Obama’s planned visit to Hiroshima – the Japanese city devastated by the first a-bomb used in war.

The residents, however, also want Obama to visit their village of Tularosa.

They say generations of villagers have suffered from cancers and other health problems resulting from the Trinity Test, but the federal government has yet to fully acknowledge those effects.

“It’s high time that the federal government acknowledges the sacrifices New Mexicans made,” said Tina Cordova, co-founder of the Tularosa Basin Downwinders. “We are still suffering from it.”

The White House announced Tuesday that Obama will become the first sitting American president to visit Hiroshima.