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Today in History, 16 July: India conducted its first successful nuclear test, codenamed Operation Smiling Buddha. This event marked Indias entry into the nuclear club and had significant regional and global security implications.

They were known as “downwinders” after the 1945 atomic bomb was exploded in the Tularosa Basin in Central New Mexico. They were the thousands of people who were impacted by

U.S. senators from New Mexico and Idaho are making another push to expand the federal government’s compensation program for people exposed to radiation from uranium mining and nuclear testing carried

The Santa Fe New Mexican Jul. 10—The first atomic blast that lit up the early morning sky at the Trinity Site in south-central New Mexico on July 16, 1945 — an event that opened the door for two nuclear bombs to be dropped on Japan — had an immense impact on the state that is…

Because of Trinity, New Mexico will be forever linked to the two bombs dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The bill would identify New Mexicans near the Trinity Site as downwinders and increase payments to $150,000.

U.S. senators from New Mexico and Idaho are making another push to expand the federal governments compensation program for people exposed to radiation from uranium mining and nuclear testing carried out during the Cold War.

The measure also has been introduced in the U.S. House, with supporters saying the clock is ticking as more people are diagnosed with cancers that they say are connected to exposure.

Democrat Sens. Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico and Republican Mike Crapo of Idaho announced Thursday that they were reintroducing the bill in the Senate.

U.S. senators from New Mexico and Idaho are making another push to expand the federal government’s compensation program for people exposed to radiation from uranium mining and nuclear testing carried