Nearly 80 years after the world’s first atomic bomb test rocked southern New Mexico, residents impacted by the fallout are finally eligible for federal compensation under a newly signed law by President Donald Trump, marking a historic step toward justice for thousands who have suffered rare cancers and health issues for generations, Axios reported.

Residents living near the 1945 Trinity nuclear test site are now eligible for federal compensation after decades of being excluded from government aid programs. Trump recently signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act which includes a two-year extension of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) and adds, for the first time, those impacted by the Trinity test.

The measure was signed just days before the 80th anniversary of the July 16, 1945, explosion that took place in the Jornada del Muerto desert near Alamogordo, New Mexico.

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