[CPEO-MEF] PRESERVATION, RADIATION: Manhattan Project National Historical Park(s)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Manhattan Project sites expected to become new national park

By Richard Simon
Los Angeles Times
June 15, 2012

WASHINGTON -- Sites of the once super-secret Manhattan Project, which  
led to the creation of the atomic bomb during World War II, could  
soon become a national park under legislation expected to pass Congress.

The bill would designate sites at Los Alamos, N.M., Oak Ridge, Tenn.,  
and Hanford, Wash., as the Manhattan Project National Historical Park.

But at least one anti-nuclear activist expressed concern that "such a  
park, if done in a historically inaccurate and biased way, could end  
up presenting a false picture of the development of nuclear weapons  
and the monumental costs and ongoing environmental impacts of the  
Cold War."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-atomic-bomb- 
national-park-20120615,0,3106544.story

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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