Downwinders documentary screened locally - Carlsbad Current-Argus

Downwinders documentary screened locally - Carlsbad Current-Argus

Holloman Air Force Base and the Sacramento Mountains Foundation co-sponsored a free screening of the Lois Lipman movie “First We Bombed New Mexico” at the Flickinger Center for Performing Arts on Saturday, October 11. The film tells the stories of families that have been affected by the radiation released during the Trinity test, which was the first atomic bomb to ever be detonated, on July 16, 1945, some 50 miles from Alamogordo, and their effo…