Trinity Downwinders Seek Justice (click here to hear program) This story was originally published on New Mexico People Places and Ideas on KUNM. By TRISTAN CLUM On July 16, 1945, the world’s first nuclear bomb was detonated at the Trinity Site near Socorro, New Mexico. Although the US government claimed the area was uninhabited, census records show that more than 40,000 people lived near-by. No warning was provided to these residents despite high levels of radiation. Sixty ye