ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Residents of a New Mexico Hispanic village near the site of the world's first atomic bomb test are planning another protest outside the annual opening of the site.
The Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium say they will picket near the gates of the White Sands Missile Range April 6 as tourists travel to see the location of the Trinity Test.
The picket comes as a proposal to include New Mexico residents in the federal Radiation Exposure Compensation Act remains stalled in Congress.
Scientists working in Los Alamos developed the atomic bomb as part of the Manhattan Project, which provided enriched uranium for the weapon. The bomb was tested in a stretch of the New Mexico desert near towns with Hispanic and Native American populations.