3 Candidates Battle to Challenge Sullivan 'It Was A

3 Candidates Battle to Challenge Sullivan 'It Was A

One dollar and fifty cents SUNDAY, AUGUST 9, 2020 newsminer.com HISTORIC POINT TRUMP SIGNS RIFLE GAINS PUPPY SIGHS HOPE PHOTOS VIRUS RELIEF NEW COACH GROOMING SUNDAYS » D1 NATION » A6 SPORTS » B1 BUSINESS » C1 T HE VOICE OF INTERIOR ALASKA Inside Today See the 2020 election guide inside today’s edition. 2020 ELECTION 3 candidates battle to challenge Sullivan Daily News-Miner coverage of congressional and ocratic candidates. They are unaffiliated fisherman and orthope- I go, people tell me they are sick of the legislative candidates appearing on the Aug. but are participating in the Democrat- dic boasts a moderate hyper-partisan politics in Washington 18 statewide primary election ballot continues ic primary as allowed by the party. The and logical approach to – politics being championed by Mitch today. The News-Miner’s 2020 primary election Alaska Republican Party does not per- Alaska’s unique political McConnell and our own Senator Dan guide, which features candidate Q&As, is mit the same practice. landscape. Sullivan, who has voted the party line included in today’s edition. See coverage online Sullivan is unopposed in the Republi- His website and mul- 97% of the time.” at newsminer.com can primary and will face whoever wins tiple campaign commer- Areas of focus outlined by the candi- the Democratic primary in November cials sell him as a man Gross date shine a spotlight on health care, By Erin McGroarty as well as Alaskan Independence Par- who will avoid adhering noting he is supports legalized abortion [email protected] ty candidate John Howe, who is unop- to the party line, something Gross notes and will fight against attacks on repro- posed in his party’s primary. Alaskans do not have in a senator cur- ductive health care. Three candidates will compete in the The election is Aug. 18. rently. Gross identifies as pro-union, point- Democratic primary this month for a “I’ve traveled from Anchorage to ing to a need to fund diverse jobs in chance to unseat Alaska Republican Al Gross Bethel, from Fairbanks to Thorne Bay, Alaska and raise the minimum wage. Sen. Dan Sullivan in November. Gross, 57, is the presumed frontrunner from Juneau to Utqiagvik,” Gross writes Two of the candidates — Al Gross and opponent for Sullivan. The commercial on his campaign webpage. “Everywhere ELECTION » A6 Chris Cumings — are not actually Dem- vGOOD CHICAGO SKY’S RUTHY HEBARD MORNING Anchorage remains COVID-19 hot spot The weather. By Rod Boyce Expect partly sunny [email protected] skies today. Anchorage continues to be High today ..............67 the hot spot for COVID-19 cas- Low tonight ............50 es, accounting for 48 of the 86 new cases announced Saturday Sunrise: 5:18 a.m. among residents and nonresi- Sunset: 10:31 p.m. dents. Most of the new cases — 78 — are of Alaskans. Aside from WEATHER » A5 the Anchorage cases, the rest were spread around the state, including three in Fairbanks. • • • West Valley High School’s Ruthy Hebard is in her first season with the WNBA’s Chicago Other communities or regions Sky, which selected her No. 8 in the league’s draft earlier this year. Hebard, who was a key reporting new cases were Eagle River, Wasilla, Chugiak, Juneau, player at the University of Oregon, will be chronicling her rookie season in an interview The Fairbanks Palmer, Sterling, Utqiagvik, the appearing Sundays in the Daily News-Miner. Read the first account in today’s sports Memorial Hospital Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, section. COURTESY CHICAGO SKY Cordova, Seward, Sitka and COVID-19 hotline Soldotna. for any questions The eight additional nonresi- regarding symp- dent cases were of people in the city and borough of Juneau, the toms or other virus municipality of Anchorage, the related inquiries is ‘It was a massacre’ Valdez-Cordova Census Area, (907) 458-2888. North Slope Borough and Dill- Hiroshima survivors recall day of death and trauma ingham Census Area. The loca- tion of one nonresident cases Ashley Wong remains under investigation. • • • TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE Saturday’s update from the state Department of Health and SOURDOUGH JACK: First came a blinding light. Then a boom, Social Services reported the “A moment of followed by a mushroom cloud swelling latest death as that of a male with dust and smoke. Anchorage resident in his 60s. silence for those In the span of a few minutes on both Aug. Twenty-six Alaskans have died lives lost 75 6 and 9, 1945, two American atomic bombs in relation to COVID-19 since years ago.” on Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki the first cases were reported in left a horrific footprint that remains contro- Alaska in March. Some of those versial 75 years later. Alaskans died out of state. Survivors living in Sacramento still viv- After an adjustment, the total idly remember what flesh looks like when number of Alaska resident cas- it peels away from muscle and how bodies es has risen to 3,613, with 2,531 swell and turn black from radiation. of those in the municipality of Debate still rages over the justification Anchorage. The municipality for the United States’ decision to drop two Co-produced by History, A+E and Hulu Japan, includes Eagle River, Chugiak, nuclear bombs on Japanese civilians, a ‘Hiroshima: 75 Years Later,’ will look back the Anchorage bowl area and question that the U.S. has historically been at the catastrophic atomic bomb attacks that Girdwood. reluctant to address. For several years after devastated the Japanese towns of Hiroshima and The total number of nonresident the bombings, the U.S. government is said to Nagasaki and marked the end of World War II in cases in the state has risen to 760. SURVIVORS » A4 August 1945. TNS VIRUS » A6 INSIDE Business » C1 | Classified » E3 | Dear Abby » D2 | Obituaries » A3 | Opinion » C4 | Sports » B1 | Sundays » D1 Thank you, Fairbanks, for supporting 606430-1-8-9-20 488-6973 • rissegreenhouse.com this locally-owned family business Hours: Tu-Sat 12-6 • Closed Sun & Mon 981 Risse Rd • 6.4 Mile Chena Hot Springs Rd • 1st left after Nordale and for buying Alaska Grown! A4 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Sunday, August 9, 2020 NATION/WORLD From the Manhattan Project, a national burden Japan’s Abe Joseph Ditzler side of the nuclear weapons gram, Rosner said. It created the up decrees, damage awards renews calls to TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE programs, whether it’s on ener- world’s very first power reactor, and the burden of nuclear gy or on computing or on any the Experimental Breeder Reac- weapons themselves. The bomb-bay doors on the number of scientific areas. They tor, at Argonne West, now the As the Cold War ended, pub- abolish atomic B-29 Superfortress Bockscar still maintain a high caliber of Idaho National Laboratory. lic attention came to bear on swung open over Nagasaki, research in the national inter- Three national laboratories health risks to workers at Los weapons at Japan, a little before noon on est,” said Steven Aftergood, a are still primarily devoted to Alamos and other sites; the Aug. 9, 1945, and at 11:58 a.m. freedom-of-information advo- the work of nuclear weapons, accumulation of toxic waste, one 10,800-pound bomb fell cate for the Federation of Amer- including their non-nuclear documented or not; poor Hiroshima away. ican Scientists. “I wouldn’t want components. Los Alamos, Law- management; and a culture of Minutes later, a 5,300-pound to overlook that.” rence Livermore National Lab- secrecy. ceremony sphere of high explosives On top of its work as a weap- oratory in Livermore, Calif., and The worst example, the Han- imploded inside the bomb cas- ons designer, Los Alamos Sandia National Laboratory in ford Nuclear Reservation, is By Isabel Reynolds ing. The blast squeezed a soft- National Laboratory, where the Albuquerque, N.M., fall under what remains of the dirty work TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE ball-sized, 13.6-pound plutoni- critical work of the Manhattan the authority of the National of bombmaking: 586 square um core to the size of a tennis Project took place, today engag- Nuclear Security Administra- miles that include nine decom- Japanese Prime Minister ball, a super-critical mass that es in basic research in myriad tion. missioned reactors that pro- Shinzo Abe renewed calls to started a chain reaction. topics, from black holes to cloud duced weapons-grade plutoni- abolish atom- The resulting nuclear explo- computing and climate change. Model teamwork um and a “staggering” amount ic weapons sion killed approximately The lab is also using genomics The Manhattan Project of radioactive waste, according and warned of 39,000 people and injured to diagnose cases of the corona- employed as many as 130,000 to the Northwest Power and a worsening another 25,000, according to virus. people and cost nearly $2 bil- Conservation Council. global security the online Atomic Archive. It When the Cold War ended, lab lion, about $28.6 billion today. About 53 million gallons situation on the was the second use of a nuclear experts also turned their exper- Work at Los Alamos alone cost of chemicals used to sepa- 75th anniversa- weapon in war and the first to tise to helping the former Sovi- taxpayers about $74 million, or rate plutonium from uranium ry of the atom- employ a plutonium implosion et Union dismantle its nuclear $1.06 billion today, according to remains stored in 177 under- ic bombing of Abe device, still a mainstay of nucle- weapons. the Brookings Institution. ground tanks, of which 70 are Hiroshima, at ar weapons technology. Los Alamos laboratory may The Energy Department in leaking and sending a radioac- a ceremony scaled back due to Scientists and engineers of the be the most famous Manhattan fiscal year 2019 budgeted $2.9 tive plume toward the nearby the coronavirus.

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