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This is the trinity test site where 78 years ago, the world's first nuclear weapon was successfully detonated. the penal family ranch is just 35 miles east of trinity. while the infamous blast took place nearly eight decades ago, the family says it continues to feel its impact. their mother and three of their older siblings were at this ranch when the test bomb detonated. cancer diagnosis followed. >> my mom died of cancer. >> she went down fast. >> so you had three brain tumors. >> it was one but it would break out and grow again and so i was going blind. >> before the blast, it's unclear wha...

That that's what they're doing. we wouldn't know whether they could do that without being able to sample the air around the nuclear test site, without a great deal more information. we do know that north korea had been es xcavating the site. we know they were procuring thermonuclear fuel to help fuel one of the weapons and we know they were building their new generation of missile to carry heavy war heads with potentially higher yield. we knew a test was coming but we're not sure what the characteristics of the war head were. >> do we know how powerful this test bomb was? >> well, as we just h...

Tested their bombs. did they own some acreage? did their parents have a farm? did they have access to a rural area or a place they could test the bomb? a lot of times lo and bloeld we'd find a test bomb. not in all cases but frequently. what "inspire" does that is so insidious is it gives very detailed instructions on reliable bomb making and they've tested these things themselves. you have a bomb master somewhere in the world who made the bomb over and over again and worked the kinks out. so they give you the recipe. it is basically a recipe. somebody at the cooking lab has made the recipe. t...

Resources put into it by the government. >> if dzhokhar tsarnaev is telling authorities the truth that he and his brother got bomb making instructions online maybe in part from al qaeda's online magazine "inspire" i looked at the specific instructions there and i can't boil an egg but i think if i worked at it long enough i might be able to follow those instructions if i wanted to. do the people who follow those kinds of instructions who haven't been expertly trained, do they need to practice? would you expect you'll find they've set off bombs out in the woods somewhere, or been working on som...

Did they have access to a rural area or a place they could test the bomb? a lot of times lo and bloeld we'd find a test bomb. not in all cases but frequently. what "inspire" does that is so insidious is it gives very detailed instructions on reliable bomb making and they've tested these things themselves. you have a bomb master somewhere in the world who made the bomb over and over again and worked the kinks out. so they give you the recipe. it is basically a recipe. somebody at the cooking lab has made the recipe. they write it down and when you make the cake wow it's great. you make the cook...