Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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On July 16, 1945, the U.S. detonated the world’s first nuclear bomb in the New Mexico desert—without warning the thousands living nearby. Radiation blanketed the land. Newborn babies died. Cancer rates soared. And the fallout still hasn’t ended. We went to New Mexico to hear the stories of those who lived downwind.

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0:00 Guinea Pigs
0:40 Manhattan Project
1:20 Wes
2:14 Government
2:43 Downwinders
3:05 Tina
3:33 Congress and RECA
5:19 Generational Cancer
8:00 Justice
8:14 Trump
8:40 Government Response

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