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Seattle Times letters to the editor

An atomic bomb was built faster

There is a historical irony in that the Manhattan Project netted us an A-bomb in less than three years, but it is taking the Department of Energy decade upon fruitless decade and wasted billions to resolve the disposition of nuclear waste at Hanford [“Treatment plant at Hanford won’t be done by 2019 deadline,” NWWednesday, Feb. 20].

Perhaps if we made both houses of Congress convene on the land overlying the leaking tanks, the whole process might be sped up immeasurably.

–Thomas Munyon, Marysville