The U.S. Tested Nukes on Its Own People. It’s Time to Apologize and Pay

Tina Cordova is intimately familiar with the legacy of the atomic bomb. Her hometown, Tularosa, New Mexico, is just thirty-four miles downwind from the Trinity Test Site, where Manhattan Project...

What's next for Downwinders after RECA expires

"It's hard for people to remain hopeful, you know we've been doing this work for 19 years," said Tina Cordova, the co-founder of the Tularosa Basin Downwinders

Documentary reveals the human toll behind the Manhattan Project

Director-producer Lois Lipman’s film First We Bombed New Mexico will likely at least do one thing: It will break your heart. And the injustice the film depicts will enrage you.

New Mexicans Respond to Expiration of Radiation Act

After the US House allowed a law to expire that had been compensating Americans exposed to federal bomb tests, New Mexican residents prepare to fight back.

‘His shoelaces are tied’: House Speaker failing to restore aid for today’s victims of U.S. nuclear...

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson is still failing to act even as federal compensation for radiation victims expired last week, says Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley. Today’s continued victims of radiatio...

The political odd couple that’s bucking Mike Johnson

Many hope, pray that Congress passes RECA - Navajo Times

Jennifer Nez hopes Sen. Josh Hawley’s expansive Radiation Exposure Compensation Act passes.