After years of secrecy developing an bomb more powerful than anything ever known known to the scientific and military community, an atomic weapon was tested in summer 1945, on unsuspecting New Mexicans ranchers and farmers, and then on Japanese residents in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Minetaka Shimada, left, a Japanese journalist now based in Washington D.C. and Mary Martinez White of Las Cruces, engage in a heart to heart conversation about the horrific physical, mental and cultural impacts on their people as information slowly became available as they searched for understanding of what had happened to them.
Photo by Joan E. Price
Tularosa residents call for medical compensation for generations of cancers Photo by Joan E. Price Each year in the morning before the annual military escorted tour of the Trinity test some 45 miles northwest of Tularosa in 1945, residents of Tularosa bring attention to the negative health effects suffered by generations of their family members. They began a campaign of awareness in 2005 in Tularosa that has spread across the state of New Mexico.
Photo by Joan E. Price
Each year in the morning before the annual military escorted tour of the Trinity test some 45 miles northwest of Tularosa in 1945, residents of Tularosa bring attention to the negative health effects suffered by generations of their family members. They began a campaign of awareness in 2005 in Tularosa that has spread across the state of New Mexico.Passchier will put together this personal encounter on her blog back home in Canada.
Each year in the morning before the annual military escorted tour of the Trinity Test some 45 miles northwest of Tularosa in 1945, residents of Tularosa bring attention to the negative health effects suffered by generations of their family members. They began a campaign of awareness in 2005 in Tularosa that has spread across the state of New Mexico and continue to be on the roads and talking to the people visiting the site. These images are from the Oct. 21 open house day.
