New Mexico Oversight Hearing Slated for Nuclear "Downwinders"

New Mexico Oversight Hearing Slated for Nuclear "Downwinders" ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Victim compensation from the nation's first atomic bomb test conducted in New Mexico nearly 75 years ago will be the subject of a field oversight hearing in Albuquerque today. In 1990, Congress passed the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act to provide money and health benefits for uranium miners and people living downwind from nuclear weapons tests who later who developed serious illnesses. ...(Read More)