People Downwind of Atomic Blasts Renew Push for US Payout

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — In the desert northeast of Las Vegas, residents living along the Nevada-Arizona border would gather on their front porches for bomb parties or ride horses into the fields to watch as the U.S. government conducted atomic tests during a Cold War-era race to build up the nation's nuclear arsenal. About 100 of those tests were aboveground, and U.S. Rep.
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