06/14/04

Christian Science Monitor

At a time when all eyes are on fighting what the Pentagon calls the
'Global War on Terrorism,' the United States is having to address the
past, present, and future of nuclear conflict. Sixty years after the
Manhattan Project produced the first and only atomic bombs ever
dropped on an enemy, the US continues to struggle with how to
permanently dispose of the radioactive and chemical byproducts of its cold-war weapons of mass destruction. The Senate recently voted to allow the Energy Department to reclassify such waste so that it could stay in place, even though some of it is leaking into the air and ground water...

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0614/p02s01-usmi.html


Informant. Thomas L. Knapp