Culture

Documentary ‘Downwind’ shows deadly consequences of nuclear testing on tribal lands

By Lillian Karabaic (OPB) and Winston Szeto (OPB)
Jan. 21, 2024 2 p.m.

Western Shoshone Principal Man Ian Zabarte, who lost his family members to diseases caused by radiation exposure, says it amounts to racism against Native Americans that the U.S. government detonated more than 900 atomic bombs on his ancestors’ land in secret from 1951 to 1992.