Post by Ramat Onize Suleiman (@Onize)

Every girl in this photo developed cancer — and almost all of them d-ed before turning thirty.
In July 1945, a group of 13-year-old girls were camping, swimming in a river, unaware that just 40 miles away, the U.S. military had detonated the world’s first atomic bomb — the Trinity test.
A few hours later, white flakes began to fall from the sky. The girls thought it was snow and started playing in it, rubbing it on their faces and laughing. But it wasn’t snow. It was radioactive fallout drifting from the blast site.
None of them were warned. None were evacuated. Decades later, survivors like Barbara Kent, the girl smiling in the front — spoke of that day, recalling how their skin burned and their eyes ached as the “snow” fell.
They were just children, and they had unknowingly walked into the fallout of history’s first nuclear explosion.

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