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

Tularosa Downwinders Try Again

An atomic bomb explodes in a vast field.

September 10, 2021 – The Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium has been trying for years to get the U.S. government to compensate families who were impacted by the Trinity nuclear test. So far, they’ve been barred from accessing federal money though the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, and the deadline to file a claim is less than…

Read More