August - 2023

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Say Their Names: Artists Reflect on Nuclear Injustice in New Mexico

Link to full article. Trinity: Legacies of Nuclear Testing—A People’s Perspective at the Branigan Cultural Center in Las Cruces, New...

Examining the Need to Expand Eligibility Under the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act

On June 27, 2018, a representative of the TBDC testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee about the need to amend the RECA in...

U.S. lawmakers move urgently to recognize survivors of the first atomic bomb test

The 1945 Trinity test produced heat 10,000 times greater than the surface of the sun and spread fallout across the country. Article,...

RACE AND THE ENVIRONMENT IN AMERICA

Axios article and slideshow - here. Most of us take the quality of the air we breathe and the water we drink for granted. But for people...

Nuclear Radiation is Becoming a Campaign Issue

Link to the article. Why it’s time to expand the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act. DATE: MARCH 29, 2022 In recent weeks, the world has...

Before Hiroshima and Nagasaki, There was New Mexico

Latino Business Podcast - Listen Here Episode - 27 On the morning of July 16, 1945, at 5:29:45 (Mountain Time) the world’s first atomic...

Press The Button - Ploughshares Fund

How Many People Have to Die From Nuclear Weapons Before We Get It? Press the Button Podcast - listen here. This week, Tina Cordova,...

An explosive movie offers opportunity to share more of the nuclear story

Santa Fe New Mexican article. Secret city Los Alamos and the lead-up to detonating the atomic bomb take center stage starting Friday with...

The explosive history behind ‘Oppenheimer’

Click HERE for the video. “Oppenheimer” brings to the cinema screen the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the brilliant, charismatic...

‘Oppenheimer’ stirs up conflicted history for Los Alamos and New Mexico downwinders

Associated Press article HERE Matthew Bolton, left, and Jan-Christoph Zoels, center, hold a sign while rallying in New York City on July...