Skip to content

New Mexico Downwinders Push for National Recognition Correspondent

An orange plume from a nuclear bomb.

7.28.23 – Tina Cordova is the founder of the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium and has been working for years to earn recognition and compensation from the federal government for the deadly pollution that followed the Trinity test. New Mexico in Focus correspondent Russell Contreras interviews Cordova this week about being overlooked yet again in the…

Read More

Oppenheimer’s Legacy in New Mexico

A black and white photo of a nuclear explosion.

7.28.23 – After the release of the film “Oppenheimer,” Gene Grant asks the Line Opinion Panel about the legacy of nuclear testing in New Mexico and whether the film should have included an examination of the devastating impacts of the scientists’ work here. Host: Gene Grant Line Opinion Panelists:Dede Feldman, Democratic former NM state senatorSophie…

Read More