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First We Bombed New Mexico Film Screening and Panel
2PM Screening
May 16, 2026
2:00 pm through 4:00 pm
The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture is pleased to partner with Downwind Film LLC to bring “First We Bombed New Mexico” to Santa Fe for this special screening and panel presentation.
It is the untold story of Trinity, the world’s first nuclear bomb, detonated in New Mexico, one month before Hiroshima. The film focuses on Hispanic cancer survivor and businesswoman, Tina Cordova, who initiated a movement for justice and fought for compensation for families suffering multi-generational health impacts from the bomb. This new updated version shares the extraordinary victory of the many years battling the U.S. government for their community’s radiation exposure resulting from the testing of the Trinity Bomb in 1945.
Lois Lipman, Director, is an Emmy award winning documentary filmmaker. Tina Cordova, activist, cancer survivor, and co-founder of the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium (TBDC) and Loretta Anderson (Laguna Pueblo) organizer of Southwest Uranium Miners Coalition Post ’71, will have a discussion following the screening.
Admission to the museum and to the screenings are free and generously sponsored by Gwynne and David Richards
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