A different era, a different SEAL
The retired Navy SEAL who wrote the book "No Easy Day," a first-hand account of the killing of Osama bin Laden, wasn't the first SEAL tell his story on 60 Minutes.
Continue Reading »A look back at a nuclear facility with fresh leaks
Most people think "Chernobyl" when it comes to nuclear disaster sites. But outside of Russia, the most contaminated nuclear site in the world is right here on the beautiful Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest. At Hanford Nuclear Facility in Washington State, 56 million gallons of radioactive waste sit in underground storage tanks. Those tanks have already leaked more than one million gallons of a toxic brew of plutonium, enriched uranium, nitric acid, and solvents into the ground.
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Helen Gurley Brown: That Cosmo girl
When Morley Safer interviewed Helen Gurley Brown, the iconic editor of Cosmopolitan, for 60 Minutes in 1974, he described her as "the high priestess of sex for millions of women," but also as "the woman women love to hate." That's because many of Brown's contemporaries accused her of perpetuating the idea that women are nothing but sex objects.
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