![]() Hundreds in the area have since been diagnosed with radiogenic cancers, including Pino's older brother and his mom. As late as the 1980s, government studies showed that people living in the fallout zone were exposed to unsafe levels of radiation. But the resulting fallout from the Trinity test burned the hair off cattle and covered the land in white dust. The federal government told locals at the time that it was just an ammo dump explosion, that there was no danger. And they started praying like crazy, you know, to Santa Rita or whoever 'cause they thought, the sun's coming up on the wrong side of the world. PINO: Some people thought it was the end of the world. The resulting explosion created a plume so big that it spread radioactive ash more than a hundred miles away, including on Carrizozo. Robert Oppenheimer and his team of scientists tested the world's first atomic bomb. That was the codename for when, about 40 miles from here, J. HEGYI: Radiation that fell from the Trinity test. PAUL PINO: And for some of them, nothing could kill them but radiation. His mom and brothers walked 10 miles a day herding cattle. NATE HEGYI, BYLINE: Paul Pino grew up on his family's ranch near Carrizozo, N.M. Nate Hegyi from the public radio podcast Outside/In reports. They were harmed by radiation but have never been compensated. SUMMERS: Amid all this publicity, those who lived near where the bomb was tested back in 1945 in New Mexico are fighting to be heard. KENNETH BRANAGH: (As Niels Bohr) You're the man who gave them the power to destroy themselves, and the world is not prepared. The physicist behind the creation of the atomic bomb is getting a lot of attention because of that big new Hollywood biopic, "Oppenheimer."
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