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My family kept secrets. 'Oppenheimer' drives home how complex those secrets were
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 9 months agoMy father's family farmed on the Los Alamos plateau, before the land was seized to develop the first...
Fallout from a nuclear past: New book explores human toll of 'nuclear colonization' in New Mexico
Las Cruces Sun-News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThis story was first published by Searchlight New Mexico. Of the three waves of colonization New...
My nuclear family
Las Cruces Sun-News via Yahoo News· 12 months agoMy parents’ house sits at the foot of the Sangre de Cristos facing west toward the setting sun and the Jemez Mountains. I still remember nights looking...
'Oppenheimer' and the story behind those who lost their land to the lab
Reuters via AOL· 10 months agoIn the movie "Oppenheimer" the eponymous character played by Cillian Murphy says the proposed site...
The ABCs of a nuclear education
Las Cruces Sun-News via Yahoo News· 12 months agoThis story was originally published by Searchlight New Mexico. Every day, thousands of people from all parts of El Norte make the vertiginous drive up to Los Alamos National Laboratory. It’s ...
EPA says Los Alamos County contributing to LANL's polluted runoff
The Santa Fe New Mexican via Yahoo News· 6 months agoNov. 26—Stormwater runoff is carrying contaminants from Los Alamos County's streets, rooftops, parking areas and other hard surfaces into nearby canyons that connect to the Rio Grande and should ...
LANL contractor 'plugging along' on fixing polluted runoff
Tribune via AOL· 3 months agoFeb. 29—Los Alamos National Laboratory's waste-cleanup contractor has taken about a dozen corrective actions in the past two years to keep storm runoff from carrying toxins from the lab's contaminated ...
The untold 'Oppenheimer' story: The female activists fighting for justice after the Trinity Test
Good Morning America via Yahoo News· 3 months agoBernice Gutierrez says she was eight days old when the world's first atomic bomb was detonated 35...
Mike Katko gives voice to women omitted from the historical record
The Santa Fe New Mexican via Yahoo Sports· 4 months agoJan. 26—When Los Alamos resident Mike Katko set out to write his first novel, he initially planned to base it off the life of one of his heroes, Native American NFL player Jim Thorpe. However ...
In our backyard: 'Oppenheimer' film renews interest in beginning of Atomic Age
Albuquerque Journal, N.M. via Yahoo News· 10 months agoJul. 16—July 16, 1945. Seventy-eight years ago to be exact, the world's first atomic bomb was detonated in the north-central portion of White Sands Missile Range — approximately 60 miles north ...
