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Originally Posted by fetishblog
Someone needs to do some research. The Manhattan Project wasn't in New York. Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Hanford, Washington; and Los Alamos, New Mexico were the locations that did 99.99% of the work on the Manhattan Project. It was a code name, not a location.
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_...n_Project.html
Besides all of that, if those caves had radioactive waste in them, there would be NO bats, and the photographer would be dead as the half life of radioactive waste from the Manhattan Project is tens of thousands of years. |
The U.S. Army began dumping Manhattan Project refuse and other chemical warfare materials at Love Canal (and
numerous other sites around Western New York) at the beginning of Americahahaha8217;s involvement in World War II and
continued doing so into the cold war.
According to a May 2001 Art Voice article by Geoff Kelly and Louis Ricciuti:
"When the United States turned in earnest to developing the atomic bomb in 1942, the government did not possess
the facilities to fast-track the project. So, the Army Corps of Engineers enlisted private industries that possessed those
facilities and were already engaging in the kind of work the Manhattan Project would require. With its abundant supply
of energy and water, its close concentration of companies with experience in creating and refining exotic chemicals,
metals and ceramics, no region was better equipped to abet the effort than Niagara Falls. Fueled by cheap, plentiful
electricity, the region had become the nationhahaha8217;s center of chemical, metal alloy and ceramics manufacturing.
"Many companies in Niagara Falls already had experience working with uranium. Some of the needed processes and
materials for atomic bomb development were invented here. The uranium and graphite of physicist Enrico Fermi's
graphite-pile reactor under the bleachers at Stagg Field at the University of Chicago (site of the first manmade
sustained nuclear reaction and a crucial first step in the development of the bomb) were almost certainly fabricated in
the furnaces of Niagara Falls.
"By the end of World War II the Manhattan Project had employed 200,000 people nationwide and cost $2.2 billion.
Gigantic research and production installations were eventually developed at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Hanford,
Washington and Los Alamos, New Mexico. But in the beginning, and in fact throughout the Manhattan Project and
continuing through the Cold War, commercial industries in Niagara Falls, Tonawanda, Buffalo, Lackawanna, Lockport
and elsewhere in the country would provide many of the materials that the larger facilities required to produce atomic,
and later, thermonuclear weapons. This regionhahaha8217;s industries were among the first to step into the atomic era."
(for more interesting reading, see -
http://www.bastardpolitics.com/lovecanal.html)