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New Mexicans harmed by world’s first nuclear bomb test will win assistance if Tina Cordova has her way
When Tina Cordova was growing up in Tularosa, her grandmother sometimes told a story about the day in 1945 when the military detonated the world’s first nuclear bomb just 45 miles northwest of her home. As the fallout rained down from the sky it covered everything in the house. She spent days dusting, but the ash kept falling, coating everything anew.
Others around Tularosa, a small town in southern New Mexico, also had stories about the Trinity test — how the mushroom cloud rose more than seven miles high and how for years after the blast people collected mysterious glassy green rocks from the crater left behind. Members of Cordova’s family recalled collecting the green shards as keepsakes, not knowing they were radioactive. It wasn’t until she left Tularosa for college that she began to see something sinister behind the anecdotes...
https://www.abqjournal.com/news/loc...cle_7ab74d1d-2fef-54a8-a018-334a10dfa977.html
- By Lucas Peerman / Journal Digital Editor
- Mar 8, 2023
When Tina Cordova was growing up in Tularosa, her grandmother sometimes told a story about the day in 1945 when the military detonated the world’s first nuclear bomb just 45 miles northwest of her home. As the fallout rained down from the sky it covered everything in the house. She spent days dusting, but the ash kept falling, coating everything anew.
Others around Tularosa, a small town in southern New Mexico, also had stories about the Trinity test — how the mushroom cloud rose more than seven miles high and how for years after the blast people collected mysterious glassy green rocks from the crater left behind. Members of Cordova’s family recalled collecting the green shards as keepsakes, not knowing they were radioactive. It wasn’t until she left Tularosa for college that she began to see something sinister behind the anecdotes...
https://www.abqjournal.com/news/loc...cle_7ab74d1d-2fef-54a8-a018-334a10dfa977.html