http://www.kob.com/politics-news/tularosa-downwinders-working-to-get-to-dc-testify-for-compensation/4821658/?cat=519 ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Residents of one New Mexico town are urging Washington to help them with radioactive problems that they say have persisted through generations. It's been decades since the world's first nuclear bomb was detonated at White Sands Missile Range, but residents at the nearby town of Tularosa say the fallout left them with rare forms of cancer. On

NOTE: This story was originally published on March 5, 2014, at https://indiancountrymedianetwork.com/news/environment/h-bomb-guinea-pigs-natives-suffering-decades-after-new-mexico-tests/ By Tanya H. Lee Much has been made of the dropping of the first atomic bomb on two now-infamous cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the health-nightmare aftermath. But only now is the spotlight being put onto those who had the actual first atomic bomb dropped in their vicinity—it was the Amer

http://www.nydailynews.com/newswires/new-york/new-mexico-residents-aim-congress-bomb-fallout-article-1.3865351 ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Residents of a New Mexico Hispanic village near the site of the world's first atomic bomb test want to share their stories with Congress about health problems they say are linked to the explosion. The Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium is raising money so its members can travel to Washington, D.C., this summer and testify about the effects