ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – Seven decades after an atomic bomb helped end World War II, families near a New Mexico test site want tourists to know nearby residents later suffered from health problems.
Protesters are planning a demonstration Saturday as hundreds of visitors are expected to visit the Trinity Test site. The site opens for tourists once or twice a year.
Tina Cordova, co-founder of the Tularosa Basin Downwinders, says a bomb test later caused rare forms of cancer for many residents in the area.
Cordova wants the federal government to compensate New Mexico families hurt by the test.
In July 1945, Los Alamos scientists successfully exploded the first atomic bomb at the Trinity site, located near Alamogordo.