Henry was 11 yrs old when he watched the plume of fallout move toward the mountains to the northeast. He remembers: "The rain was on our roofs, our garden. On our dairy cow, rabbits, pigs, turkeys, and chickens. We each used rainwater from the cistern and water from the ditch. All the dirt from our roof ended up in our cistern after the first rain." First, Henry contracted salivary gland cancer. Radiation treatment caused osteoradionecrosis, damaged his carotid artery. His brother died. Both his sisters survived cancer.

Jolene was 2 yrs old and lived 112 km southeast of Trinity. The military injected a lot of money into the local economy - which made it taboo for anyone to criticize the bomb, she says. In fact, it has been called the best thing that has ever happened to Alamorgordo - giving the city its nickname "Atomic City". "There was never cancer in my family," says Jolene, "and then my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer at t he age of 50. Eventually she died of it at the age of 70." Jolene also had breast cancer, her sister died of ovarian cancer. Jolene's daughter is a type 1 diabetic, diagnosed when she was 9 yrs old.

The bomb exploded a day before Nora's 2nd birthday. Most of her groceries came from their family's large garden. "I don't know what the vegetable contained - after the ash and everything that caused the bomb." Nora's brother died of leukemia at the age of 5, but the family didn't think it had anything to dow with the fallout - because nobody told them about the radiation. Nora's eldest sister Helen was diagnosed with kidney cancer 30 years ago. Her other sister Arcenia died in 2006 from multiple myeloma. Another sister, Virginia, was diagnosed with colon cancer about 15 years ago and was diagnosed with breast cancer a few years later.

Raymond was 7 yrs old. "It looked as if the sky had been colored yellow," he says of the sight at the time. A few times a week the neighbor would drop by with milk in an open bucket, he recalls. "Everything was like that," he says , referring to the consumption of agricultural products from the region. Raymond's mother and siblings developed thyroid problems. His mother developed cancer. Raymond himself survived cancer but his wife lost her father and brother to lung and stomach cancer.