Seven decades after an atomic bomb helped end World War II, families in New Mexico's Tularosa Basin want tourists to know nearby residents later suffered from health problems.
Protesters are planning a demonstration this weekend as the Trinity Test site opens to visitors.
Tina Cordova, co-founder of the Tularosa Basin Downwinders, says a bomb tested at the site later caused rare forms of cancer for many residents in the area.
Cordova wants the federal government to compensate New Mexico families hurt by the test.
In July 1945, Los Alamos scientists successfully exploded the first atomic bomb at the Trinity site, located near Alamogordo.
The U.S. later dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ending the war with Japan.
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