Near the western New Mexico town of Grants, the toxic legacy of Cold War uranium mining and milling has shattered lives, destroyed homes and created a contamination threat to the last clean source of groundwater for an entire region
Alicia Inez Guzmán
Raised in the northern New Mexican village of Truchas, Alicia Inez Guzmán has written about histories of place, identity and land use in New Mexico. She brings this knowledge to her current role at Searchlight, where she focuses on nuclear issues and the impacts of the nuclear industry. The former senior editor of New Mexico Magazine, Alicia holds a Ph.D. in Visual and Cultural Studies from the University of Rochester in New York.
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Sébastien Philippe
Princeton University Program on Science and Global Security, Princeton, N.J.
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Rose Gottemoeller
Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and the Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.
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Dylan Spaulding
Union of Concerned Scientists, Global Security program, Cambridge, Mass.
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Frank N. von Hippel
Princeton University Program on Science and Global Security, Princeton, N.J.
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Robert Peters
Heritage Foundation Allison Center for National Security, Washington, D.C.
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Seismic shift: How U.S. policies on nuclear weapons are likely to change under Donald Trump
Searchlight spoke with six experts about what the new administration could mean — for everything from Los Alamos National Laboratory to a possible return to underground detonations at the Nevada test site
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Plutonium just had a bad day in court
In a major decision whose consequences are still being assessed, a federal judge declared that plutonium pit production — one ingredient in the U.S. government’s $1.5 trillion nuclear weapons expansion — has to be performed in accordance with the nation’s strongest environmental law
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Radiation by any other name
How agencies measure radiation and regulate radioactive waste