
The Atomic Hereafter

The following essay by Alicia Inez Guzmán, the reporter responsible for this coverage, sets out to describe her personal and family history with the Lab. Her essay also serves as an act of disclosure. None of us has the luxury of disinterest when it comes to nuclear proliferation but it can be argued that Alicia has a more personal connection than most journalists.
The ABCs of a nuclear education
New Mexico’s local colleges are training students to work in a plutonium pit factory. What does this mean for their future — and the world’s?

Safety lapses at Los Alamos National Laboratory
A history of flooding, an earthquake and little fires in the belly of the beast


The terrible emptiness of “Oppenheimer”
The blockbuster movie leaves out the real story’s main characters: New Mexicans