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ABC News(TULAROSA, N.M.) -- The Trinity Test, the detonation of the first atomic bomb in 1945, was a technical success -- the gadget, as it was codenamed, generated 18 kilotons of force, and the explosion set off the nuclear age. But many New Mexico residents consider it the beginning of a decades-long disaster. Families near the test site have complained for generations about unusually high occurrences of cancer. "I always tell people, 'This isn't normal cancer histories. This isn't normal health histories,'" said Tina Cordova, the head of the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium, ...