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New Sign Marks Trinity Site’s 80th Anniversary

7.25.25 NMiF Reporter Cailley Chella takes us to the Trinity Site in Southern New Mexico, where a new sign now stands to acknowledge the human toll of the nuclear bomb that first exploded there 80 years ago. 

Correspondent: Cailley Chella 

Guests: 
Tina Cordova, Co-Founder, Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium 
Jay Coghlan, Executive Director, Nuke Watch NM 
Melissa Park, Executive Director, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons 
Mary Martinez White, Member, Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium 

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Instant flash, slow burn: 80 years later, New Mexico still feels effects of Trinity Test – Santa Fe New Mexican