Letters To The Editor
What Oppenheimer didn’t tell us
Oscar-winning Oppenheimer fails to depict the experience of the Tewa people with the Trinity test. Using First Peoples and the land and water they protected as sacrifice for atomic testing, just weeks before the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the U.S. government poisoned the air, water, and sacred land of the Tewa—communities that for more than 10,000 years held peace as a way of life. The genocide of Native Americans committed since the arrival of Europeans took on a new form on Pajarito Plateau, and in the uranium mining that took place for decades in New Mexico, leaving a legacy of cancer for generations to come and abandoned uranium mines—practically uncountable and nearly impossible to clean up...
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