Trinity Six Decades Later

Santa Fe New Mexican - TULAROSA — Tresa VanWinkle struggled to hold back tears as she glanced at family photos perched on her desk among the clutter of her downtown office. "I look at what has happened to members of my family, and I wonder if we are the children of the bomb," said VanWinkle, 53, director of the Alamogordo-based Cancer Awareness, Prevalence, Prevention and Early Detection center. She was pulling up national and state cancer trends on the computer — numbers that she said show spiking cancer rates among families in the sprawling, often wind-whipped and ever-dusty Tularosa Basin north of Alamogordo. "The bomb" was the 19-kiloton plutonium device nicknamed "The Gadget," detonated just before dawn July 16, 1945, on the northwest end of what is now the White Sands Missile Range. Read full story here: News New Mexico

Trinity Six Decades Later