
80 years later, Trinity Test victims now eligible for compensation
A bright, blinding light flashed above New Mexico’s Jornada del Muerto desert at 5:30 a.m. on July 16, 1945. The thunderous roar that followed jolted 14-year-old Jess Gililland awake on the porch of his family’s ranch 27 miles away. Gililland didn’t know …