Tularosa Basin Downwinders' Consortium

Officials with White Sands Missile Range in southern New Mexico are expecting even more visitors than usual for its Trinity Site open house on Saturday. The public affairs office is warning of waits up to two hours to enter the site. They attribute the uptick to renewed interest in nuclear history following the release of the film “Oppenheimer.”

Since the detonation of the first nuclear bomb in 1945, people who have lived downwind from the Trinity testing site have complained of negative health…

The National Cancer Institute will come to New Mexico this spring to investigate how much radiation people were exposed to after the Trinity test in the…