Colorado Experience: Colorado's Cold War (Rocky Flats)

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Colorado Experience: Colorado's Cold War (Rocky Flats)

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In 1951, in the early days of the Cold War, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission announced
the construction of a new facility in Arvada, Colorado, 16 miles from Metro Denver. Although the general public was largely unaware of what went on at the site, the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant manufactured the plutonium “trigger” used in every nuclear weapon created in the United States. For the next several decades, Rocky Flats was a major stimulus to the local economy, providing thousands of jobs to area residents. But it was also a source of increasing controversy, as reports of radioactive contamination
affecting the local environment and the truth about what was really going on at Rocky Flats
became public. Colorado’s Cold War explores the legacy of Rocky Flats and the local impact of a global conflict.
For additional resources related to Rocky Flats, visit www.rmpbs.org/coloradoexperience.

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@lovethesummer26 5 жыл бұрын

My grandpa worked at Rocky Flats and passed in 2004 from an unidentifiable lung cancer. I believe it was from the exposures at RF.

@accessfm 6 жыл бұрын

Brilliant programme. Makes me frightened and sad about what went on there. Well done to PBS and greetings from Ireland!

@granskare 4 жыл бұрын

I know a guy in Ireland & his wife from Turkey. A young really smart kid found a lot of pieces of nuclear material. They shipped it in a box, the airport security people looked at it did not know was it was and it got through.

@chuckhf420 3 жыл бұрын

Such a shame they trashed that land. The views of the flatirons and mountain ranges is insane.

@rixille 3 жыл бұрын

Seems like a lot of 20th century industrial facilities were very effective at making things, but were too lazy/negligent about being clean because of costs and a lack of respect for the hazards of the materials they handled. This can be seen in many countries around the world even today unfortunately..

@frizzlefry1921 3 жыл бұрын

@MotoIncognito Yeah they did unfortunately...

@jamesHannah-jx4ek 9 ай бұрын

@@frizzlefry1921 Supposition on your part.

@basketcas3717 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah idk about that older guy who said he was in the top 10 of most exposed people that worked around all that stuff and has had 0 health issues. He don’t look like a worker.

@joepolisi9176 Жыл бұрын

My parents got paid out on a settlement at some point of time in the 90s for just living in the neighborhood east of there because they lost value to their homes living next to their

@j50wells Жыл бұрын

Its still a home bargain, I mean considering the alternative. One home goes for 500k in Lakewood or Golden, but the same home goes for 400k out by Rocky Flats. But who wants to live there? --An out of stater who doesn't know. I've been here 17 years. I didn't know when I first came. I heard rumors, but I always thought they were just that, rumors. I finally read a book about it ten years ago, and then I knew.

@foxythunder481 5 жыл бұрын

Isn’t it an EPA superfund site now?

@derekmwolff 5 жыл бұрын

Foxy Thunder no hwy 93 run right past the site and homes are now being built within miles of the waste site.

@avalynnwaller6885 4 жыл бұрын

@@derekmwolff ...mkayyy...that's scary. Very.

@allandavis8201 4 жыл бұрын

Whilst the use of the nuclear weapons on Japan was, at least in my opinion, necessary but unfortunate, without them the end of WWII could have been very different and maybe delayed by Russia and China trying to conquer 🇯🇵 for their own ends. The vast amount of nuclear weapons produced by the USA and Russia as however OTT, Colorados contribution producing the triggers is interesting but also quite sad considering there end use in potentially ending the world, for everything good about Colorado this is a blot on that record. Sorry Colorado, but nuclear weapons are the worst invention ever, and I wish the technology could be put back into its “Pandora’s Box”, but that’s no reflection on Colorado or the citizens of the state, and the workers were doing a job that did ultimately protect the USA and the world so they don’t deserve to be vilified. Thanks for sharing this interesting and informative documentary, sad but interesting. 😀👍🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

@obsoleteoptics Жыл бұрын

The bombs were dropped in August. Japan was ready to surrender in January.

@Coinbro 6 ай бұрын

Truth!

@allandavis8201 5 ай бұрын

@@obsoleteoptics that is the first time I have heard anyone say that, but if you mean the January before the bombs were dropped then I don’t agree, if they were ready to surrender then why didn’t they?, they knew that the terms of surrender were unconditional, there was no room for negotiation, so they were fighting on and costing them and more importantly the allies lives.