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5 days ago · Martinez White grew up in a community 45 miles from the site of the first atomic bomb test. Maggie Billiman holds a picture of her late parents, Mary Louis and Howard Billiman.
5 days ago · Between meetings in a busy congressional hallway, a tearful Maggie Billiman tightly gripped a picture of her late parents. The 63-year-old tribal member worried her visit to the Capitol this week would mark her last chance to fight for families sickened by the nation's nuclear testing program. "I just want to make sure that these leaders hear ...
5 days ago · Martinez White is a member of a group known as the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium, which is raising awareness of illnesses tied to Trinity, the code name for the first nuclear bomb test in ...
5 days ago · Martinez White is a member of a group known as the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium, which is raising awareness of illnesses tied to Trinity, the code name for the first nuclear bomb test in 1945. She blames the test's fallout for a half of dozen cases of cancer in her family of 10.
5 days ago · NPR reports that RECA has provided payments up to $75,000 to those sickened by the nuclear testing program, totaling $2.7 billion to over 400,000 recipients. . One of the groups fighting to have ...
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5 days ago · The world's first atomic bomb was tested in New Mexico in 1945, where hundreds of locals are still facing fallout from the test. Many are also fighting for compensation from the federal government ...
