Study into cancer risks in New Mexico

The study will then be published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal and could be available by next spring, Levin said.

Scientists working in Los Alamos developed the atomic bomb as part of the Manhattan Project, which provided enriched uranium for the weapon. The secret program also involved facilities in Oak Ridge, Tenn., and Hanford, Wash. The bomb was tested in a stretch of desert near towns with Hispanic and Native American populations.

Residents did not learn that the test had involved an atomic weapon until the U.S. dropped bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the war ended………http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/trinty-site-cancer-studyexpected-to-finish-in/article_5b297eb3-e177-5d06-b435-42f2c273718a.html