“New Mexico residents were neither warned before the 1945 Trinity blast, informed of health hazards afterward, nor evacuated before, during, or after the test. Exposure rates in public areas from...
July 16th 2019 is the 74th anniversary of the first above ground nuclear bomb test on a U S civilian population. It was done near Tularosa New Mexico. The people...
By Russell Contreras | Associated Press Aug 6, 2018 Updated Aug 7, 2018 ALBUQUERQUE — A long-anticipated study into the cancer risks of New Mexico residents living near the site...
The first atomic detonation. Oppenheimer recalls his impressions of the moment for an interview on NBC in 1965. The first nuclear weapon test was carried out by the United States...
Please check out Stephanie’s blog Particle Beams “Luminous Quanta of Divine Intelligence…” dispelling the nuclear delusion Trinity Day — a good day to get money from the Fed? Batter my...
By Emily Conover, Science News | March 27, 2025 sciencenews.org When the countdown hit zero on September 23, 1992, the desert surface puffed up into the air, as if a giant...
Today, Jan. 27 is a National Day of Remembrance for Downwinders. Nuclear testing by the U.S. government started in New Mexico with the Trinity Test in July 1945, and the...
“Do you believe the Department of Energy; our own government is telling the truth?” asked Duane Pohlman. “Nobody believes that. If you do, you’re a fool,” said Guy Reynolds.” PIKETON,...
“A return to explosive nuclear testing in the United States would almost certainly trigger a return to explosive nuclear testing in Russia, China and probably other nuclear-armed states. …America’s nuclear veterans...
Extreme contamination in Acid Canyon raises concerns over public safety and environmental health. By Tibi Puiu, ZME Science | September 20, 2024 zmescience.com A new study has revealed alarming levels of...
Archbishop John Wester of Santa Fe participated in the forum and said efforts to eliminate nuclear weapons can progress when “reasonable and good-willed people enter into a critical conversation.” These...
‘Extreme plutonium contamination scenario’ identified in research from , soil, water and plant samples taken in Acid Canyon arroyos BY DANIELLE PROKOP, SOURCE NM | August 16, 2024 sourcenm.com Los Alamos,...
After three cleanups, independent analysis shows 80-year-old plutonium persists in Acid Canyon and beyond By Alicia Inez Guzmán, Searchlight New Mexico | August 15, 2024 searchlightnm.org The world’s oldest documented plutonium...
In April Nuclear Watch New Mexico released a map of plutonium contamination based on Lab data. Today, Dr. Michael Ketterer, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Northern Arizona University, is...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, August 15, 2024 Dr. Michael Ketterer – 928.853.7188 | Email Jay Coghlan – 505.989.7342 | Email Santa Fe, NM – In April Nuclear Watch New Mexico released...
“So we got to do all we can to rid ourselves of this destructive power and that’s why people of faith are involved in this important matter.” Archbishop of Santa...
“The shared stories here are harrowing. Uranium workers from Laguna and Acoma Pueblos and the Seboyeta and Cubero land grants who toiled in mines after 1971 and the Tularosa Basin...
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) will attach an amendment reauthorizing and expanding a law compensating Americans exposed to radiation by the federal government to all items moving on the Senate floor,...
Decades of nuclear weapons tests and other radioactive experiments injured or killed scientists, soldiers, and innocent bystanders. Many of them, and their relatives, have never been compensated, but new efforts...
The Department of Energy (DOE) releases Draft Chromium Interim Measure and Final Remedy Environmental Assessment to address a chromium plume under Los Alamos National Laboratory. But there is no ‘final remedy.’...
Carol A. Clark, Los Alamos Daily Post | December 19, 2023 ladailypost.com Summary Groundwater sampling data from monitoring wells at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) indicate the presence of chromium contamination...
Why did a Truchas woman die with extraordinary amounts of plutonium in her body — and why was she illegally autopsied? For this reporter, the answers hit close to home....
Nuclear weapons issues Final conference by Senate and House Armed Services Committee deleted expansion of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act that would have covered Trinity Test Downwinders, among others. In...
Tina Cordova, the fourth-generation cancer survivor and activist who founded the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium, is profiled in the new film First We Bombed New Mexico. / Courtesy Lois Lipman By...
“Thanks to the bipartisan efforts of U.S. Sens. Ben Ray Luján, D-N.M., and Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, the Senate recently passed an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act making Trinity...