The US Senate unanimously voted to designate January 27 as the National Day of Remembrance for Downwinders. This designation only recognizes people who were impacted by atomic testing done at the Nevada Test Site.
PASSFL wishes to honor all of those who were exposed to radiation in America’s quest for nuclear weapons and nuclear energy, including those who worked at, and lived near, the Santa Susana Field Lab, including those who are still being impacted today.
Downwinders Documentaries
In the Dark of the Valley, Emmy-nominated
NBC.com (Free with commercials)
Downwind (2023)
Amazon Prime (rent)
Downwinders and the Radioactive West
New York Times Article
Read more about the radioactive fallout in the New York Times Article, Trinity Nuclear Test’s Fallout Reached 46 States, Canada and Mexico
Estimated radionuclide deposition density for the first 10 days after detonation of the Trinity test on July 16, 1945, at 5:29 a.m. local time.CreditCredit...Sébastien Philippe, Susan Alzner, Gilbert P. Compo, Mason Grimshaw, Megan Smith