Un accidente en el laboratorio que fabrica los núcleos de las bombas nucleares de EE. UU. provocaría más víctimas mortales de las que el gobierno federal había previsto, aseguran los autores de una nueva investigación.
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.
Posted inEnvironment
U.S. Underestimates Peril if Los Alamos Were to Leak Plutonium, Study Says
An accident at the lab that produces America’s nuclear bomb cores could lead to more fatalities than previously estimated by the federal government, according to new research.
Posted inFeatured
Poisoning the well
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
Posted inSidebars
Sébastien Philippe
Princeton University Program on Science and Global Security, Princeton, N.J.
Posted inSidebars
Rose Gottemoeller
Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and the Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.
Posted inSidebars
Dylan Spaulding
Union of Concerned Scientists, Global Security program, Cambridge, Mass.
Posted inSidebars
Frank N. von Hippel
Princeton University Program on Science and Global Security, Princeton, N.J.
Posted inSidebars
Robert Peters
Heritage Foundation Allison Center for National Security, Washington, D.C.
Posted inNuclear
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
