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 ...

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.

A new documentary delves into what the blockbuster film “Oppenheimer” left out. The film “First We Bombed New Mexico” by Lois Lipman recognizes the 79th anniversary of the Trinity Test in New Mexico.

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. It’s an oft-repeated adage that art can change the world. But for Lois Lipman, director of documentary film ...

MESILLA – The Mesilla Valley Film Society will host three special screenings of the documentary, “Oppenheimer After Trinity,” which looks at the events that followed the testing of the first atomic ...

New Mexico-filmed “First We Bombed New Mexico” will have its world premiere as part of the Santa Fe International Film Festival at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 20, and 2:15 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 22, at CCA ...

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 ...

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On Sunday, July 15, 1945, at around 11 pm Mountain War Time, New York Times reporter and in-house Manhattan Project historian (or propagandist, some would say) William L. Laurence joined the project’s ...

A number of social media posts in August 2025 shared a story about the civilian aftermath of America's rush to create the atomic bomb in 1945. According to the posts, a group of 13-year-old girls was ...