Trinity Test Fallout Victims in New Mexico Finally Get Compensation After 80 Years

Scientists and other workers rig the world's first atomic bomb.

Congress earlier this month finally got around to making New Mexico fallout victims of the first test of an atomic bomb and the miners who dug up the uranium to fuel the weapon eligible for compensation — nearly 80 years after the fearsome 22-kiloton blast code-named Trinity sent up a churning mushroom cloud over the […]