05: The Lab (Part 02)

What would happen if a wildfire consumed Los Alamos National Laboratory? Over the last 25 years, LANL has narrowly escaped two major wildfire events. On a warming planet, it may be only a matter of time until the lab's luck runs out, and its almost 30,000 acres of plutonium pit facilities, nuclear waste storage, contaminated canyons, and explosives caches are turned into an atomic incinerator.
You've seen how far wildfire smoke can go, right?
On this episode of Time Zero, you'll also learn about the radioactive lanthanum (RaLa) experiments, where, prior to the 1945 Trinity event, lab…