Background on the Trinity Test
A study to estimate the radiation doses and associated range of excess cancer risk from the world’s first test of a nuclear weapon, conducted in 1945 and known as Trinity, was recently completed by a team of researchers from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health. Radiation doses that may have been received were estimated for all counties of the state. The team also provided an estimate of how many cancer cases may have occurred in the past and might occur in the future related to this radiation exposure. The findings are being published in the October 2020 issue of the journal Health Physics.