Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jun. 7—Advocates for New Mexico downwinders and former uranium miners minced no words this week about House leadership not holding ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A fireball rises into the sky over Nevada after the U.S. government detonated a 61-kiloton device on June 4, 1953. Nuclear weapons ...

Mary Alice Glen was 37 years old when she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1996. Years earlier, her mother died from ovarian cancer. One of her sisters had breast cancer. A brother had colorectal ...

SALT LAKE CITY — One year to the day since federal lawmakers let compensation for downwinders expire, advocates say they feel more optimistic than they have in months about getting an expansion of the ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: This episode originally aired on November 30, 2025. A recent report indicates that Idaho downwinders stricken with cancer can now get federal compensation. Last week, the Idaho ...

For decades, downwinders have criticized the Radiation Compensation Exposure Act, or RECA, for being too narrow. Designed to compensate people exposed to and sickened by nuclear weapons development, ...

Congress is currently considering two competing bills that would continue compensating people who were sickened by radiation from nuclear weapons testing and development, known as downwinders. One is ...

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The first time Americans had ever heard of the atomic bomb was hours after the U.S. bombed Hiroshima in August 1945. But it was tested a month before that in the Jornada del Muerto desert of New ...

Advocates for New Mexico downwinders and former uranium miners minced no words this week about House leadership not holding a vote to extend a law that provides compensation to people sickened by Cold ...

A fireball rises into the sky over Nevada after the U.S. government detonated a 61-kiloton device on June 4, 1953. Nuclear weapons experiments at the Nevada Test Site spread fallout to other states, ...