national laboratory located in los alamos new mexico after a seven year two hundred and thirteen million dollar upgrade to the security system that protects the labs most sensitive nuclear bomb making facilities the security system does not work and will require millions of dollars and improvement but aside from the wasted money even the placement of the laboratory is problematic you see these facilities sit atop a fault line and remain vulnerable to collapse and therefore dangerous radiation releases but let's go from new mexico to. to tennessee where the price tag for a new uranium processing facility has grown seven fold in eight years to more than six billion dollars all due to a number of structural problems that weren't caught until the final stages of the building's development now those are just two examples but the reality is that almost all of the major projects under the and as say are seeing major errors and development according to the u.s. government accountability office ten of the agency's major projects combined are thirty eight years behind schedule and sixteen billion

then he was at los alamos and feeding information to the rosenbergs. >> the smithsonian magazine, one interesting article in 2009 about george kovar, who is considered one the most important atomic spies in russia's history and most of the people in this country did not do not even know about them until 2009. he was honored at an event and there is a wonderful article about him in the smithsonian magazine. if you search for george kovar, really interesting stuff. but he was in oak ridge as well. .. >> right now the atomic heritage foundation has something called manhattan -- voices of the manhattan project and they have been working on gathering oral histories for a long time and they are now starting to put them up on line. that is a tremendous project. they are just starting to put them up on line now but that's very interesting. >> thanks for your work. >> thank you very much. >> hello. you mention there were two other sites in los alamos. did any research touch on those communities? in hanford who perhaps may have had similar experiences if they were interested in it? >> that i do

it there were three main sites, los alamos, new mexico, which is the one that pops into her head when we think about the manhattan project, hanford, washington state, oak ridge tennessee, and where the majority of my book takes place. now that we have the basics, i will tell you a little bit about how i found the story that is one of the questions and how did you come across this idea. the answer is complete and utter dumb luck. i was working on a completely different book and i came across this picture that grabbed my attention. and you may have seen the picture and the little picture well out there. it was a long room line from floor to ceiling with these huge panels that were covered in these knobs and dials. this gauntlet of technology. sitting on stools in front of all these different panels were these very young girls. at first i was looking at the image and i read this accompanying text, this was a doe newsletter and it's that these young women, many of them recent high school graduates from rural areas and tennessee are enriching uranium for the world's first atomic bomb, only

siegfried hecker, this guy from los alamos you see on the right there, he goes out to kazakhstan alone and he goes to that test site. and when he's there, he sends back to his friends in the united states this picture. this is how that site with all the plutonium laying around was being guarded. see the traffic barriers there that are just left up, all the more convenient to drive up and down that road. the little house there covered in graffiti, it is supposed to be a guard post, but it is abandoned. there is nobody working there. that's how well-guarded that site was. what was happening on that site, amid total economic collapse in the region, was that people had started raiding that nuclear test site for scrap metal. and it wasn't just individual guys breaking in in the night and like stealing manhole covers, like happens in some places here at home, even now. they were scavenging this site on an industrial scale, using excavators and bulldozers, doing everything they could to dismantle that place to find anything they could sell. they dug these long trenches with heavy machinery be

at the los alamos was during the war. >> i am shocked that residents were not enraged by would have been. imagine bearing children. >> yeah, worked very closely with one woman who grew up in richland and her father was at the safety plan. everybody likes to talk about and how they expand cancers in medical problems they produce thousands of big mosquito problems. they have fogging trucks, jeeps as part of the militarization landscape. military surplus jeeps with military surplus ddt fog and accounts. the kids loved to run. they love the smell, probably got a little high off of it. her father matter never let her run. so many years later when he died a very characteristic direct cancer, his wife is arty type of thyroid cancer and radioactive iodine from the stacks goes into the thyroid almost strictly. they mimic biological functions in minerals the body needs. so plutonium go straight to the bone marrow because the body soak seductress like it does calcium. radioactive iodine mimics iodine. once they are there, safely embedded in your oregon companies start to generate power and energy a

i've toured los alamos, rand paul and chris christie i hate to see fat man and little boy quibble likehis when the 400 pound guy is telling you bring home too much bacon you know it's going mad. you want to get the pant suit rid for hillary. big mama is going to be in that inaugural parade. and uma abadean going to be next chief of staff, the name used on the internet this week. >> bill: there is a lot to digest there, miller. >> all right. so your advice for republican party kind of let's calm down a little bit. kind of get together. kind common ground have blts together, stop the nonsense, huh? >> well, listen billy as they say in the business, pooch has been screwed. i'm not sure we're not seeing the awkward birth of a third party. hillary is just sitting there licking her chops. >> bill: here in new york city we can have the big gulp again, we can drink as much sewed qla was we want because courts ruled mayor bloomberg cannot limit the size of sodas and you say? >> it's about time mayor lucky charles -- charms got shot down beware of the dwarf star who fans yeez himself a quasar. y

the manhattan project in los alamos, nuclear missile silos hidden deep beneath the desert floor.re are we? >> ground zero of where everything seems to have started. >> submitted for your approval. norio and his friend james, two men associated with the new mexico ufo and paranormal forum. >> this is where america's rocketry actually started. >> at the end of world war ii, classified units of the cia and army intelligence were busy sandbagging and sneaking away from probable prosecution, cadres of the world's rocket scientists. did i mention they were nazis? oh yeah, many of them were sent around here. >> other very mysterious things even took place, allegedly, in 1947. >> 1947, roswell incident. >> that's right. that's still a mystery. >> some say. you notice how they always say that in those dubious cheaply reenacted doc shows. back then they were working on some pretty cool stuff. for instance, a mylar-like weather balloon. they would pancake out like a flying saucer. might that explain the kpesive zeal and mysterious behaviors? if one of these things crashed in the desert, you

i have toured los alamos. see fat man and little boy quibble like this. when 400-pound guy is telling you you bring home too much bacon you know it's gone absolutely mad. and yeah if they're going to keep shooting inside the tent like, this you ought to get the fur lined pants suit ready for hillary, big momma is going to be in that inaugural parade. >> hello, hey. how are you? >> uma be a dean is going to be the next chief of staff. >> bill: there is a lot to digest in that opening remark there, miller. [ laughter ] >> let's hope not. let's hope not. >> bill: all right. so,your advice is to the republican party is to kind of let's calm down a little bit, kind of get together, find some common ground, have a couple of blt's telling and stop the nonsense, huh? >> well, listen, billy, as they say in the business, the pooch has been screwed. the g.o.p. is in disarray. i'm not sure what we are not seeing here is the awkward birth of a third party because i think these two are going to brake off eventually, hillary

our state has two great national laboratories, sandia and los alamos. their work is essential to the security and safety of all americans. keeping our nation's nuclear stockpile safe and secure. we are host to three air force bases as well as white sands missile range. this budget impacts -- this budget impasse is damaging to these installations and it threatens economic chaos in the nearby communities. businesses that rely on federal contracts wonder if they can keep their doors open. sequestration is already damaging small businesses that survived the recession, businesses like queston construction, a general contractor. their president, tina cordova has seen the number of employees shrink from near 40 to just 18 today. and then there are the businesses like p.s.c., a 100% native american woman-owned security personnel business that had to let go employees last year, threatening shutdowns only makes this worse. these partisan games are also hurting the small businesses that depend on tourism. according to the national park service, new mexico's nation

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