Film Quotes

Cancer Survivor & Co-Founder, Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium

Tina Cordova

“My father developed oral cancer without any risk factors. He didn’t smoke, didn’t drink, didn’t use chewing tobacco. Had no viruses. The doctor told us this just didn’t happen. But they also told us they see this a lot here.”

Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future, Author

Kate Brown

“We have with Trinity the birth of the nuclear age, and we have many of the patterns we see throughout the nuclear age–lack of curiosity about the people who lived just downwind, the people who were exposed. Cover-ups and minimization of that impact.”

Governor of New Mexico

Michelle Lujan-Grisham

“No one should have to fight so hard to get restitution when you are victimized by your government. They absolutely knew about the radiation exposure. Lots more science about it today, but they knew.” 

Acid West, Author

Joshua Wheeler

“New Mexico is the only state with a cradle-to-grave nuclear industry. There is the mining of elements for atomic and nuclear weapons in uranium mines; the engineering of nuclear weapons at Los Alamos and Sandia laboratories; testing of nuclear weapons at Trinity and in Farmington; and the storage of nuclear waste in Carlsbad.”

Nuclear Nuevo México, Author

Myrriah Gómez

“People want to call New Mexico a sacrifice zone, and I forever reject that term because in order to be a sacrifice, you have to give up something that’s important to you. New Mexico has never been important to the United States.”

New Mexico Downwinders Activist

Paul Pino

“The wind in New Mexico can blow in every direction at the same time. That is the worst place to test an atomic bomb.”