Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A fireball rises into the sky over Nevada after the U.S. government detonated a 61-kiloton device on June 4, 1953. Nuclear weapons ...

BOISE (Idaho Statesman) — Mary Alice Glen was 37 years old when she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1996. Years earlier, her mother died from ovarian cancer. One of her sisters had breast cancer.

Without the backing of Orrin Hatch, a group of Western senators propose expanded downwinder compensation.--- Led by New Mexico Democratic Sen. Tom Udall, the senators want to expand the compensation ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This episode originally aired on November 30, 2025. A recent report indicates that Idaho downwinders stricken with cancer can now get federal compensation. Last week, the Idaho ...

Sherrie Hanna is looking for justice, and the clock is ticking. The problem she's taking on is a big one - so large, in fact, that there's no definitive answer on the number of people impacted.

More than 30 years after the Cold War ended, the legacy of nuclear testing and the uranium mined to fuel an arms race linger in a bleak half-life, most visibly in those who suffered severe health ...

SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO – Many New Mexicans who survived cancer or had family members die from cancer have already received compensation from the federal government in connection with historical nuclear ...

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In July 2004, Tona Henderson's mother handed her a copy of the Messenger Index and told her to sit down and read it.

A fireball rises into the sky over Nevada after the U.S. government detonated a 61-kiloton device on June 4, 1953. Nuclear weapons experiments at the Nevada Test Site spread fallout to other states, ...