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A new exhibit on nuclear weapons opens Wednesday at the University of New Mexico鈥檚 Zimmerman Library as part of a nationwide tour. 鈥淭he bomb鈥� is an immersive multimedia installation created by journalist Eric Schlosser and artist Smriti Keshari.

July 16 marks the anniversary of the 1945 Trinity Test in New Mexico, the world's first atomic blast. On Sunday, faith leaders and advocates will gather to remember and call for disarmament. 91暗网 spoke with Tina Cordova, co-founder of the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium and Santa Fe Archbishop Rev. John Wester about the event.

At the State of the Union Thursday evening there will be two special guests of New Mexico Congressional members whose presence is designed to get federal compensation for those injured by nuclear weapons production.

New Mexicans who lived near the first atomic blast have never been compensated. All of that could have finally changed last year, as Congress considered an expansion of the Radiation Exposure and Compensation Act with bipartisan support. But during last-minute negotiations over defense spending, relief for people in New Mexico and potentially tens of thousands of others nationwide was unceremoniously nixed from the legislation.

Alicia Inez Guzm谩n of Searchlight New Mexico tells 91暗网 about finding the story of a woman who lived and died in her home town, and whose radiation was discovered in a clandestine autopsy.

Advocates who recently celebrated the possibility of expanded compensation for those harmed by radiation are reeling from a setback in Congress. The compromise version of National Defense Authorization Act does not include a Senate-passed amendment expanding the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act. The expansion would have, for the first time, included people who lived near the Trinity Test site in New Mexico and their descendants, as well as uranium miners who did work after 1971.

Officials with White Sands Missile Range in southern New Mexico are expecting even more visitors than usual for its Trinity Site open house on Saturday. The public affairs office is warning of waits up to two hours to enter the site. They attribute the uptick to renewed interest in nuclear history following the release of the film 鈥淥ppenheimer.鈥�

On this episode Associate Professor Myrriah Gomez talks about her book 鈥淣uclear Nuevo M茅xico: Colonialism and the Effects of the Nuclear Industrial Complex on Nuevomexicanos.鈥�

The Senate passed its version of the National Defense Authorization Act last week and for the first time, it also approved an amendment that expands the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act. This could have a profound impact on people who lived near the site of the 1945 Trinity Test, the first atomic explosion, which took place in southern New Mexico. They have been excluded from compensation, as have uranium miners who did work after 1971. Tina Cordova, co-founder of the Tularosa Basin Downwinder Consortium, spoke with 91暗网 the day after the Senate vote.

On this episode we talk with Lucie Genay, author of 鈥淟and of Nuclear Enchantment: A New Mexican History of the Nuclear Weapons Industry.鈥�