Q&A: Nuclear Princeton short film examines the impacts of uranium mining on Navajo lands [Video]

Navajo Nation  — In the wake of blockbuster hit “Oppenheimer,” a movie highlighting the scientific development of the nuclear bomb through the Manhattan Project, stories of the Indigenous lives impacted have remained untold. 

During World War II and into the 1970s, the United States mined for uranium on Native American land. Indigenous people were employed in the mines without being warned of the health and environmental impacts, resulting in high rates of lung cancer  and other ailments. 

Nuclear Princeton, an undergraduate project at Princeton University, hopes to bring this reality to light, in part through a short animated film titled “Titration: Radioactive Waste, Princeton and the Navajo Nation. ”

Princeton University was integral to the Manhattan Project and other developments in nuclear science. 

Nuclear Princeton unites undergraduates from the university in acknowledging this history, and using their platform to bring light to the impacts these scientific advancements had on Native lands and people. 

“Titration: Radioactive Waste, Princeton and …