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Family photographs hang on the wall in Andrea Carrillo's mother's home on Sierra Blanca Rd in Tularosa, NM.

Downwinders: The Forgotten Stories of America’s First Atomic Bomb

Sofie HechtSeptember 17, 2025

Half a million people lived within a 150-mile radius of Trinity nuclear testing site in 1945. Only 15% of the plutonium in the bomb fissioned, while the remaining radioactive fallout blew downwind into surrounding communities and seeped into the soil.