 Now, you are clearly too young to have been alive when the Trinity test took place. So tell us about your family's background. Where did they live? How close they were to the blast site? And a little about what their lives were like before the Trinity blast. You're absolutely right. I was born in 1959, so much later than the Trinity test. But my family has, I can trace my family back about seven generations in the Tularosa Basin.