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Good morning.

Welcome to another episode of our monthly series Hard Truths,

examining systemic racism in the U.S.

Today, environmental justice in the U.S. government.

At 5.29 a.m. on July 16, 1945, the U.S. Army detonated an atomic bomb,

the first task in American history and a desert valley near Alamo Gordo, New Mexico.

At the time, the location was kept secret,

but the huge blast woke members of the Hispanic and Indigenous communities living next door.

This was about a month before the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Henry Herrera was 11 years old then.

In a town, Tolerusa, just outside of Alamo Gordo,

he spoke with our race and justice reporter Russell Contreras

about what it was like in the moments after the bomb went off.

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