In the new podcast series Nuclear Collateral Damage: Conversations with Survivors and Experts, Youth Fusion aims to raise awareness about the consequences of the nuclear weapons testing/or use by uplifting voices of previous and current generations who have been negatively impacted up until this day. In addition to that, we also draw attention to a kinship of nuclear weapons testing/or use with colonial histories in different parts of the world. By addressing individual and collective traumas, we pursue to revive, restore and reclaim human dignity.
In the first episode, we have a conversation with Tina and Livia Cordova, activists and advocates from New Mexico, USA.
The episode was divided into Part I and Part II where the host of this series, Aigerim Seitenova, gets to know about negative implications related to the Trinity Test, the first nuclear weapons testing in the US that took place in South Central New Mexico.
This is Part I of the first episode where Tina Cordova shares her personal and professional journey of establishing Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium (TBDC) and fighting for justice for the people of New Mexico.
