{"id":447496,"date":"2018-03-05T10:24:50","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T14:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=fe5682a9ebe1f7dbc482dca1216701fe"},"modified":"2018-03-05T10:24:50","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T14:24:50","slug":"the-cold-wars-toxic-legacycostly-dangerous-cleanups-at-atomic-bomb-production-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=447496","title":{"rendered":"The Cold War&#8217;s toxic legacy&mdash;costly, dangerous cleanups at atomic bomb production sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seventy-five years ago, in March 1943, a mysterious construction project began at a remote location in eastern Washington state. Over the next two years some 50,000 workers built an industrial site occupying half the area of Rhode Island, costing over US$230 million \u2013 equivalent to $3.1 billion today. Few of those workers, and virtually no one in the surrounding community, knew the facility&#8217;s purpose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seventy-five years ago, in March 1943, a mysterious construction project began at a remote location in eastern Washington state. Over the next two years some 50,000 workers built an industrial site occupying half the area of Rhode Island, costing over US$230 million &ndash; equivalent to $3.1 billion today. Few of those workers, and virtually no one in the surrounding community, knew the facility&#8217;s purpose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=447496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":447497,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447496\/revisions\/447497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=447496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=447496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=447496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}