Carefully Cleaning Up The Garbage At Los Alamos

Technical Area 21 at Los Alamos National Laboratory, during a brief morning rain and hail storm. Mark Holm for The New York Times

From The New York Times:

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. — No one knows for sure what is buried in the Manhattan Project-era dump here. At the very least, there is probably a truck down there that was contaminated in 1945 at the Trinity test site, where the world’s first nuclear explosion seared the sky and melted the desert sand 200 miles south of here during World War II.

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