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Secret Manhattan Project caused danger for thousands of years

In 2000, the National Academy of Sciences declared that the Manhattan Project sites would pose risks to humans for tens of thousands of years into the future.

How Little Boy Atom Bomb Grew Up in Company Towns: Bloomberg, By Lewis Lapham – Sep 10, 2010 With Albert Einstein urging President Roosevelt to beat the Nazis to an atom bomb, the government created the Manhattan Project.Top secret research sites included Hanford, Washington, Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and uranium-enrichment facilities in Tennessee.

At Oak Ridge, local inhabitants and farmers were chased off the land to make way for a new town designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill with housing, cafeterias, schools, churches, shops and bowling alleys for more than 66,000 workers.

Of the huge factories, the K-25 uranium-separating plant alone covered 44 acres and was then the largest building in the world.

Kept in the dark, the workers learned just why they were there when the four-ton Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.

In 2000, the National Academy of Sciences declared that the Manhattan Project sites would pose risks to humans for tens of thousands of years into the future.

How Little Boy Atom Bomb Grew Up in Company Towns: Lewis Lapham – Bloomberg

September 10, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | secrets,lies and civil liberties, USA | antinuclear, enriched, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive, uranium