Michigan State University Extension
Environmental Justice Database - 01690524
03/01/96
"Los Alamos Lab Toxic Johannesburg of New Mexico."
Montes, J. (Spring-Summer) 1994.
p.11-12. Race, Poverty, and the Environment 4-5 (4-1):
11-12.
The Chicano and Pueblo communities surrounding Los Alamos
National Lab link the lab and its emissions to high rates
of brain and other cancers.nuclear weapons. Their
concerns about accidental releases, unlined radioactive
waste dumps, and radiation poisoning have been voiced to
Center for Disease Control and Agency for Toxic
Substances and Disease Registry. Yet, these people of
color continue to be excluded from the nuclear weapons
debate.
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