I think it would be a better service to your readers to tell about the Superfund sites left at military bases rather than the socioeconomic effects on towns with their closure (HCN, 8/22/05: Leavin’ on a Jet Plane). I read HCN for environmental, not social, topics. Cheryl ChipmanBishop, California THE EDITOR RESPONDS The West’s environment […]
Cheryl Chipman
A modest proposal for nuclear waste
Being in the county adjacent to Nye County, Nev., where Yucca Mountain may actually store nuclear waste one day, I am not at all comfortable knowing a mere 15 miles separates the counties. Even Carlsbad, N.M., seems too close for producing plutonium triggers for new bombs (HCN, 9/1/03: Courting the bomb). I propose an idea: […]