Tag Archives: the Manhattan Project

Bikini Atoll Is Not A Beer: Pacific Islanders Speak Out via The Asia-Pacific Journal

Posted on 2019/09/07 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Laray Polk Pacific Islanders are speaking out after a Texas-based company, the Manhattan Project Beer Co, named one of its handcrafted beers, Bikini Atoll. Based on news coverage and responses on social media, people around the world are listening. An … Continue reading →

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Liane Russell, Who Studied Radiation’s Effects on Embryos, Dies at 95 via The New York Times

Posted on 2019/08/20 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Her findings led to cautions against X-rays for pregnant women. She also discovered that the presence of the Y chromosome meant a mammalian embryo was male. By Katharine Q. Seelye Dr. Liane B. Russell, a pioneer in the study of the dangers … Continue reading →

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Beer Named After Nuclear Testing Site Bikini Atoll Gets Called Out for Insensitivity via TIME

Posted on 2019/08/17 by yukimiyamotodepaul

BY CADY LANG  The Manhattan Project Beer Company, a Texas-based craft beer company, was called out for insensitivity this week by Pacific Islanders and the Marshall Islands government for naming one of its beers after the Bikini Atoll, a site of extensive U.S. … Continue reading →

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Photos show nuclear facilities in dangerous disrepair via CNN

Posted on 2016/09/08 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Washington (CNN)US nuclear security facilities are dangerously decrepit and putting national security goals at risk, according to nuclear officials who are asking Congress to back the administration’s push to modernize the system. Nuclear officials described critical utility, safety and support … Continue reading →

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Joe Biden urges ‘Manhattan Project’ to fight cancer while on Australian tour via The Guardian

Posted on 2016/07/17 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Vice-president announces deal to share data from Australian patients with researchers around the world The US vice-president, Joe Biden, says there is a need for a new “Manhattan Project” against cancer as he announced a deal to share data from … Continue reading →

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An underground fire is burning near radioactive waste. Don’t worry, EPA says via The Washington Post

Posted on 2016/02/16 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Her first clue that something was wrong came as she ran her hands through her baby boy’s hair. “My child was losing his hair in clumps,” Meagan Beckermann recalls. A doctor traced the problem to alopecia areata, an autoimmune disease that can … Continue reading →

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Open house to discuss Coldwater Creek federal health assessment via Fox 2

Posted on 2016/01/27 by yukimiyamotodepaul

FLORISSANT, MO (KTVI) – The efforts to document potential illnesses linked to Coldwater Creek continues Tuesday as federal investigators visit St. Louis County to talk to those who live and work near the creek. Experts from the U.S. Army Corps … Continue reading →

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Movies of Cold War Bomb Tests Hold Nuclear Secrets via Wired

Posted on 2015/12/07 by yukimiyamotodepaul

When Greg Spriggs was 11 years old, his father, a Navy man stationed on Midway Island, took him out one night to watch a nuclear bomb explode in space. The year was 1962 and the nuclear test was Starfish Prime, … Continue reading →

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