词汇 | downwinder |
词源 | downwinder. A term applied to people in the Southwest “who claim they were harmed by wind-carried radioactive fall- out resulting from open-air testing of atomic bombs in the 1950s and early 1960s,” according to a New York Times article of December 29, 1993. |
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