Screening: First We Bombed New Mexico

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Come to Albuquerque Museum for a screening of “First We Bombed New Mexico,” an award-winning new documentary by Lois Lipman about the Tularosa Basin Downwinders. It’s in conjunction with the Museum’s current exhibition “Nuclear Communities of the Southwest” and recognizes the 79th anniversary of the Trinity Test on July 16, 1945.

Fueled by the righteous anger of activist and cancer survivor Tina Cordova, Lipman’s film is a revelatory call to action. It tells the compelling untold story of the Trinity Test, the world's first nuclear bomb that was secretly detonated near White Sands, New Mexico one month before the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, effectively ending World War II. 

Known as downwinders, residents lived as close as 12 miles from Oppenheimer’s bomb and suffered nuclear fallout and exposure without warning. Their water and land were poisoned, and multigenerational cancers followed and continue today. The government has never acknowledged or helped residents. This film witnesses the people's narrative for voices not heard and documents the downwinders’ plight to expand the federal Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA), which ended in June 2024.

The film is selling out festival screenings across the country, winning awards, getting standing ovations and electrifying audiences. View the trailer.

In Ventana Salon. Admission to the screening is free, but you must reserve a ticket online to secure a seat.

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