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New Mexico forum highlights Catholic views on nuclear disarmament, deterrence

(Alejandra Molina. National Catholic Report)

Tina Cordova has made it her life’s work to shed light on the negative health effects plaguing the people of New Mexico after the U.S. military detonated the world’s first atomic bomb at the Trinity test site July 16, 1945. To grasp the severity of the radiation exposure, Cordova says, “it’s important to understand our way of life.”