FILE - This photo shows an aerial view after the first atomic explosion at Trinity Test Site, in N.M., on July 16, 1945. (AP Photo, File)

Tina Cordova, founder of the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium, discusses health disparities in New Mexico ahead of the first screening of "First We Bombed New Mexico" during the Oppenheimer Film Festival in Los Alamos, New Mexico on Saturday, Aug. 17, 2024. The documentary tells the stories of those who lived near the Trinity Test Site when the U.S. government detonated the first atomic bomb and the Native Americans who worked in the uranium industry. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)

Tina Cordova, right, an activist with the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium, offers a handshake to an attendee of a campaign event with House Speaker Mike Johnson and Republican U.S. House candidate Yvette Herrell of New Mexico, during a demonstration in Las Cruces, N.M., Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024. The Consortium is asking Speaker Johnson to pass a Senate bill to expand the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act to include New Mexico Downwinders and post 1971 Uranium Miners. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)

New Mexico Sen. Leo Jaramillo walks into a theater for the first screening of "First We Bombed New Mexico" during the Oppenheimer Film Festival in Los Alamos, New Mexico on Saturday, Aug. 17, 2024. The documentary tells the stories of those who lived near the Trinity Test Site when the U.S. government detonated the first atomic bomb and the Native Americans who worked in the uranium industry. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)

Panelists answer questions during a discussion following the first screening of "First We Bombed New Mexico" during the Oppenheimer Film Festival in Los Alamos, New Mexico on Saturday, Aug. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)

FILE - This July 16, 1945, file photo, shows the mushroom cloud of the first atomic explosion at Trinity Test Site near Alamagordo, N.M. (AP Photo/File)

Cancer survivor and Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium founder Tina Cordova, center, answer questions during a discussion following the first screening of "First We Bombed New Mexico" during the Oppenheimer Film Festival in Los Alamos, New Mexico on Saturday, Aug. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)

New Mexico Sen. Leo Jaramillo, center, is flanked by panelists and downwinders as they discuss the film "First We Bombed New Mexico" during the Oppenheimer Film Festival in Los Alamos, New Mexico on Saturday, Aug. 17, 2024. Advocates have been pushing for the reauthorization and expansion of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, saying the government has failed for decades to acknowledge New Mexico downwinders and people in other states exposed to radiation as a result of the government's nuclear weapons work.(AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)

Downwinder Paul Pino heads through the SALA Event Center toward the screening of "First We Bombed New Mexico" during the Oppenheimer Film Festival in Los Alamos, New Mexico on Saturday, Aug. 17, 2024. The documentary tells the stories of those who lived near the Trinity Test Site when the U.S. government detonated the first atomic bomb and the Native Americans who worked in the uranium industry. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)

Downwinder Paul Pino walks into the SALA Event Center to attend the first screening of "First We Bombed New Mexico" during the Oppenheimer Film Festival in Los Alamos, New Mexico on Saturday, Aug. 17, 2024. The documentary tells the stories of those who lived near the Trinity Test Site when the U.S. government detonated the first atomic bomb and the Native Americans who worked in the uranium industry. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)