Bernice Gutierrez says she was eight days old when the world's first atomic bomb was detonated 35 miles east of her home in 1945. The bomb was detonated from the Trinity Test site, a location ...

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 ...

What happened to the communities who lived near the Trinity test? Did any Manhattan Project scientist suffer long-term health ...

New Mexico Sen. Leo Jaramillo walks into a theater for the first screening of "First We Bombed New Mexico" during the Oppenheimer Film Festival in Los Alamos, New Mexico on Saturday, Aug. 17, 2024.

Yet artistic merit and historical accuracy don’t always mesh – especially in Hollywood. And although Nolan is an unusually exacting and conscientious filmmaker – and Oppenheimer is based on Kai Bird ...

(RNS) — Last summer, the film “Oppenheimer” captured audiences the world over with its depiction of the creation of the world’s first atomic bomb at New Mexico’s Los Alamos Laboratory. The ...

Last summer, the film “Oppenheimer” swept the box office and helped reignite public discourse about nuclear weapons and the ever-present threat of their use. It’s perhaps inevitable that the movie, ...

They thought they were playing with warm snow. In the summer of 1945, a dance troupe of young girls from El Paso, Texas had made their way to the mountains of Ruidoso, New Mexico, where their ...

The documentary ‘First We Bombed New Mexico’ is racking up awards from film festivals LOS ALAMOS – It was the summer of 1945 when the United States dropped atomic bombs on Japan, killing thousands of ...