Twitter: @Mike_Jagacki
Hometown: Middlesex, N.J.
Professor: Mary D'Ambrosio
Class: Writing About Social Issues
Takeaway:
A learning experience from this story was the persistence needed to gather information, and to talk to people in power.
In 1943, a vast field in the New Jersey town of Middlesex was part of the Manhattan Project, the top-secret program that created the atomic bomb. It took the federal government nearly 40 years more to discover that radioactive material had been left behind -- and for the land to be targeted for cleanup.
