Unit six reading comment five
Did the Manhattan project change the environment of New Mexico? Did it change the land or anything like that?
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Reading Comment Peer Reply 1:
It did to radiation sickness in Alamogordo, which resulted in several deaths.

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Yes, the text references 2.4k sites that have been contaminated by LANL. Many organizations, like Tewa Women United for example, are actively working to hold LANL accountable (including clean up) and for the return of their ancestral lands that were lost during the Manhattan Project.