Downwinders demonstrate in Tularosa

After years of secrecy developing an bomb more powerful than anything ever known known to the scientific and military community, an atomic weapon was tested in summer 1945, on unsuspecting New Mexicans ranchers and farmers, and then on Japanese residents in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Minetaka Shimada, left, a Japanese journalist now based in Washington D.C. and Mary Martinez White of Las Cruces, engage in a heart to heart conversation about the horrific physical, mental and cultural impacts on their people as information slowly became available as they searched for understanding of what had happened to them.