Most of the thousands who worked in a remote cluster of wooden buildings and metal shacks in the New Mexico desert in the 1940s had no idea they were part of the Manhattan project. The buildings in which they researched and tested the nuclear bomb could get a new lease of life. Stripped of their classified laboratory equipment, many of the buildings at Los Alamos in New Mexico, Oak Ridge in Tennessee and Hanford in Washington are rusting and face being condemned.
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