los alamos, new mexico, is the birthplace of the nuclear age. atomic bombs used in world war ii were designed and developed there, and it remains one of two places that design every nuclear weapon in the united states arsenal. the other, livermore lab in california. recently, i sat down with marylia kelley executive , director of tri-valley cares, or communities against a radioactive environment, a partner group with the alliance for nuclear accountability. the group just put out a new report called "trillion dollar , trainwreck: out-of-control u.s. nuclear weapons programs accelerate spending, proliferation, health and safety risks." i asked her to talk about contamination where she lives at livermore. >> livermore lab is a superfund cleanup site, meaning it is on the epa's list of most contaminated locations in the country. i recently moved that under my old home was an off-site groundwater plume emanating from the lab was toxic waste in it. there is leaking down to the , a numberthe aquifer of toxic and radioactive materials that come from th

and i first went to their secret city, their los alamos, in february of '92. next month, i'm going to make my 52nd visit to russia since that time. and most of it is addressing this issue of the security issues that we had. so when i look back in 1991-'92, the number one, two, and three greatest nuclear threats and concerns that i had were all related to russia and the coming apart of the soviet union and what happens. and then we had this incredible combination of u.s. government actions that were really important, including president george h.w. bush's presidential nuclear initiatives. the nunn-lugar act, visionary legislation, the tract two non-governmental came on in force, ahead of the government, to sort of push into action talking to each other, because they knew it was going to take a lot of cooperation. and then we the scientists at these nuclear labs, began to work together. so at that time, and that's the story we tell in this book, in a thousand pages. so i'm going to try to give you a quick synopsis of those thousand pages. [ laughter ] so what we

it was totally unheard of during those times and i first went to their secret city, their los alamos in february of '92. and next month i'm going to make my 52nd visit to russia. since this time. and most of it is addressing this issue of the security issues that we had. so when i look back on 1991, '92, the number one, two and three greatest nuclear threats and concerns i had were all related to russia and the coming apart of the soviet union and what happens. and then, we had this incredible combination of u.s. government actions that were really important, including president george p.w. bush's presidential nuclear initiatives. nonlugar act. visionary legislation. the track two nongovernmental community really came on in force. actually ahead of the government to sort of push into action talking to each other because they knew it was going to take a lot of cooperation. and then, we the scientists at these nuclear labs began to work together. so, at that time, and that's the story we tell in this book in 1,000 pages. so i'm going to try to give you a quick synopsis of those 1,000 p

from 1986 until 1997 until 1997 he directed the los alamos national laboratory which have the chief mission of ensuring the safety and reliability of the american nuclear arsenal. in recent news professor hecker has worked with russian nuclear laboratories to secure the enormous stockpile of the are materials that russian had inherited from the soviet union. he is now compiling and editing a book that will serve as russian colleagues history of cooperation. that hasn't come out yet has it? his now compiled and edited a book in the history the history of cooperation between russian and american laboratory since -- at least if i understand it you can update me, his current research deals with the problem of reducing the risk of nuclear terrorism worldwide and the challenges that nuclear india, pakistan and north korea, as well as the nuclear aspirations of iran. he has been an important contributor to public debate about nuclear issues in the united states and beyond. recent publications that got my attention included article entitled stop killing iran's nuclear science. >> george is next to

the manhattan project in los alamos, nuclear missile silos hidden deep beneath the desert floor.here 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 best 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. "some say" it was the remains of an alien spacecraft. anyhoo, back then they were working on some pretty cool stuff. for instance, a mylar-like weather balloon designed to carry high-resolution cameras across the soviet union. when they got into the atmosphere they would pancake o

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