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Len Ackland

Len Ackland is a former newspaper reporter and editor of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists magazine. He wrote a book about the Rocky Flats nuclear bomb factory near Denver. This current assignment's most haunting memory was his visit to the desert Trinity site in New Mexico where the nuclear weapons age burst upon us 70 years ago.

Posted inAccountability

How an honorable discharge led to a life of pain for a WWII vet

by Len Ackland November 12, 2018June 30, 2021

One journalist’s lifelong quest to understand who and what was responsible for his father’s suicide.

Posted inNational Security

Risky US nuclear bomb gets green light

by Len Ackland August 10, 2016August 10, 2016

The most controversial nuclear bomb ever planned for the U.S. arsenal – some say the most dangerous, too – has received the go-ahead from the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration.

Posted inNational Security

Obama pledged to reduce nuclear arsenal, then came this weapon

by Len Ackland and Burt Hubbard July 14, 2015June 30, 2021

How the controversial new B61-12 bomb entered the U.S. arsenal of weapons is a tale of the extraordinary influence of the “nuclear enterprise,” as the

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