March 5, 2014, in what is now known as the WHITE SANDS MISSILE SITE, New Mexico. GUINEA PIGS: INDIGENOUS PEOPLES SUFFERING DECADES AFTER NEW MEXICO H-BOMB TESTING -- ...But only now is the spotlight being put onto those who had the actual first atomic bomb dropped in their vicinity—it was the Americans’ own people, Turtle Island’s original inhabitants, the Indigenous Peoples of the southwest. The worlds first atomic bomb was detonated on July 16, 1945, in New Mexico—home to 19 American Indian pueblos, two Apache tribes and some chapters of the Navajo Nation. Manhattan Project scientists exploded the device containing six kilograms of plutonium 239 on a 100-foot tower at the Trinity Site in the Jornada del Muerto (Journey of Death) Valley at what is now the U.S. Armys White Sands Missile Range. The blast was the equivalent of 21 kilotons of TNT. At the time an estimated 19,000 people lived within a 50-mile radius. It has taken nearly 70 years, but the National Cancer Institute is launching a study to determine how much radiation the residents of New Mexico were exposed to that fateful day, and what effect it could have on their lives... via Robert Cherwink bit.ly/1nquGFo
Posted on: Sat, 08 Mar 2014 04:54:36 +0000
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