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Residents work to understand the ongoing impacts of nuclear test fallout and radiated clouds over Idaho decades ago BY: MIA MALDONADO - JANUARY 15, 2024,  https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2024/01/15/the-fight-isnt-over-idaho-downwinders-persist-after-congress-cuts-compensation-for-them/ For nearly two decades, Tona Henderson collected newspaper articles, letters and photographs documenting who in the small town of Emmett, Idaho, was diagnosed with cancer, including her own family. The resu...

Tona Henderson is the director of the Idaho Downwinders, a nonprofit that advocates for Idahoans to receive government compensation if they were impacted by nuclear fallout in the mid-20th century.

Despite many people in Idaho not knowing about the exposure in the Gem State from nuclear testing, a small, dedicated group are trying to fight for help.

For nearly two decades, Tona Henderson collected newspaper articles, letters and photographs documenting who in the small town of Emmett was diagnosed with cancer, including her own family. The result

What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, or so they say…

An MQ-9 Reaper flies a training mission over the Nevada Testing and Training Range, July 15, 2019. MQ-9 aircrew ]provide dominant, persistent attack and reconnaissance for comabtant commanders and coalition partners across the globe. (U.S. Air Force...

Peter Jennings investigates the U.S. government's decades long decision to deny that there were harmful effects resulting from above ground nuclear tests conducted on the Nevada Testing Range. He talks to former nuclear test workers and several downwinders whose lives were affected by the tests.