The Nuclear Plowshare
John McWhorter of Alaska Public Radio reports on a 1950’s plan by the Federal government to use nuclear bombs to blast a harbor in the Alaskan coastline. Radioactive waste from the aborted project was recently discovered near the proposed site.
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