Unclear Danger 1B: Remembering Rocky Flats

Welcome to the first supplemental, side episode in our Rocky
Flats series. Herein you’ll find a recording of the panel we put
on at the Denver Public Library on April 7, as well as an
unprecedented plea.


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Meet the Panelists:


Len Ackland is an independent journalist and
retired journalism professor. During his time as editor, the
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists won a National Magazine Award
in 1987, and he went on to serve as the founding director of the
Center for Environmental Journalism at CU Boulder. Of particular
interest, Len is also the author of Making a Real Killing: Rocky
Flats and the Nuclear West.


Murph Widdowfield has the unique distinction
among our panelists of having spent time working at the Rocky
Flats plant. Like many other former workers, Murph remained
involved in issues surrounding the site. He is currently the
president of the board of the Rocky Flats Cold War Museum, a
museum that you cannot physical visit, despite years of effort
from Murph and the rest of the board.


Dorothy Ciarlo is a PhD and retired clinical
psychologist. In the late 90s and early 2000s, she worked with
the Boulder Public Library’s Maria Rogers Oral History Program to
conduct more than a hundred interviews with former workers,
activists, politicians, scientists, and contractors, some of
which you heard in the first episode of our Rocky Flats series.
Dorothy went on to publish a paper based on these interviews in
the Journal of Peace Psychology. That paper is titled ”Secrecy
and Its Fallout at a Nuclear Weapons Plant: A study of Rocky
Flats Oral Histories”


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