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TULAROSA, N.M. - A strong rumble woke 13-year-old Lucy Benavidez Garwood in the darkness, shaking the three-room adobe house where she and her family lived and rattling dishes in the kitchen cupboard. Neighbors who gathered that morning agreed it must have been an earthquake. They learned the truth several weeks later when U.S. forces attacked Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. The atomic bombs dropped on the two cities had been developed in Tularosa's own backyard - that pre-dawn test blast jo...

The use of nuclear weapons "would have trouble passing muster of any read of just war theory, because it would not be proportionate to the goal that one is trying to achieve, of peace with justice."

In southern New Mexico, Communities surrounding the Trinity site continue to deal with the legacy of illness and death.

Use of nuclear weapons would almost always be both disproportionate and indiscriminate, says a moral theologian

Catholic Review, August 9, 2023, HIROSHIMA, Japan (OSV News) — On the 78th anniversary of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Archbishop Paul D. Etienne of Seattle and Archbishop John C. Wester of Santa Fe, N.M., and the Pilgrimage of Peace delegation from their archdioceses participated in an interfaith prayer ceremony and a peace memorial…

In Christopher Nolan’s three-hour biopic “Oppenheimer,” released last week, the Manhattan Project comes to New Mexico largely because J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) wishes it so. The film was shot in the Land of Enchantment with a hastily assembled Ghost Ranch set serving as the film’s freshly constructed Los Alamos.

A delegation from archdioceses of Seattle and Santa Fe, New Mexico, took part in a peace memorial ceremony on Hiroshima Day

Since the bombing on Aug. 6, 1945, many more people have died from radiation poisoning and other illness because of the bomb.

Parishioners feelings of sadness and shock resurfaced late last month when federal authorities announced the arrest of the 61-year-old priest, accused of using text messages to coerce and entice a

“Downwinders” from New Mexico communities that lived in the shadow of the 1945 atomic bomb test want their serious health struggles to finally be acknowledged.