Los Alamos National Laboratory

On this episode we talk with Lucie Genay, author of “Land of Nuclear Enchantment: A New Mexican History of the Nuclear Weapons Industry.”

Sunday was the 78th anniversary of the Trinity Test, the world’s first nuclear explosion, which took place in southern New Mexico. At a remembrance in Santa Fe, Archbishop John Wester renewed his call to eliminate nuclear weapons. He was joined by anti-nuclear activists and people from a variety of faith traditions in person and online.

One area's struggles show how difficult it is, in reality, to move on from coal.

Since March of 2020, we’ve seen COVID-19 continue to mutate into different variants. As of right now Omicron’s subvariant BA.5 remains the dominant strain and the Biden Administration has extended the public health emergency again until October.However, Los Alamos National Laboratory is experimenting with an unusual tool that could effectively fight against and better detect COVID and its variants.

The Southwest’s fire season is lasting longer and getting worse, according to researchers. Fire officials do have a trick up their sleeve: prescribed or planned burns. The Los Alamos National Laboratory is creating a tool that uses physics and data modeling to predict how a prescribed burn might behave before it’s lit. But, in hot, dry weather it’s harder to keep them under control.

In the state where the atomic bomb was born and the current home of two national nuclear weapons laboratories the Archbishop of Santa Fe is calling for nuclear disarmament.

Drought adds fuel to the Southwest’s massive wildfires by killing off swaths of forests. That’s been exacerbated over the last decade by bark beetles that attack and kill live trees. Now, a new study shows climate change is accelerating these processes, causing more trees to die faster.

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