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In Oppenheimer’s Fallout, The Survivors Lobby for Recognition

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First We Bombed New Mexico was screened Tuesday night at American University as part of the DC Environmental Film Festival. The documentary follows the lives of people born and raised downwind from the Trinity Test, the world's first nuclear bomb detonation. The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, signed into law in 1990 to reimburse uranium mine workers and those living in the fallout of nuclear test sites, expires this June.

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In Oppenheimer’s Fallout, The Survivors Lobby for Recognition

Seventh-generation New Mexican Tina Cordova has battled for years to get Congress to reckon with the damage that J. Robert Oppenheimer wrought upon her home. Now, the clock is ticking. First We Bombed New Mexico, screened Tuesday night at American University as part of the DC Environmental Film Festival, covers the lives of Cordova and

1 month ago·Washington, United States

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