Another New Mexico town seeks awareness on atomic bomb harm

CARRIZOZO, N.M. (AP) — A small, New Mexico railroad town that received a large part of the residue from the world’s first atomic bomb test is joining efforts to share stories about the test’s health effects as advocates work to gather more information how the 1945 test affected generations of Hispanic and Native American residents.

Advocates seeking recognition for the harms caused by the World War II-era test are trying to gather stories from residents of the tiny town of Carrizozo, New Mexico, the Alamogordo Daily News reported Tuesday.

It is the latest community to join efforts to by the Tularosa Basin Downwinders, a group that advocate for residents in southern New Mexico whose families lived near the Trinity Test site, to gather oral histories and data about the health effects from the atomic bomb experiment.

The bomb was tested in a stretch of desert near Carrizozo and other towns with Hispanic and Native American populations.

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