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A Century Later, the Factory That Poisoned the ‘Radium Girls’ Is Still a Superfund Site
Decades after the factory that poisoned the “Radium Girls” in the 1920s shut down, Ottawa, Illinois, is still home to a Superfund site.
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Radioactive Boars in Fukushima Thwart Residents’ Plans to Return Home
Officials are struggling to clear towns of toxic animals so that people displaced after the 2011 nuclear meltdown can come back. By Kimiko de Freytas-Tamura.
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The Girls With Radioactive Bones
How the “radium girls” revealed the danger of radiation and fought for safety standards. By Sarah Zhang.
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Troops Who Cleaned Up Radioactive Islands Can’t Get Medical Care
Roughly 4,000 service members helped clean up the Enewetak Atoll from nuclear tests. Many now have ailments they think result from the work, but the government won’t provide health care. By Dave Philipps.
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Trump Is Letting Go the People in Charge of Maintaining Our Nuclear Arsenal
Between the Trump transition team’s infighting, incompetence, and high-profile resignations, any decisions that signaled even a modicum of stability for the country would come as a relief at this point. Unfortunately, the nascent Trump Administration isn’t inclined to calm anyone’s nerves. By Ashley Feinberg.
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Rockets Fall on Rocket Falls
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
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Bill Perry Is Terrified. Why Aren’t You?
How an 89-year-old cold warrior became America’s nuclear conscience. By John F. Harris and Bryan Bender.
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Another [US] nuclear weapons contractor pays millions to settle charges of illegally diverting federal funds
Allegations of illegally spending federal funds to lobby for new funds now encompass contractors working at six of eight nuclear sites. By Patrick Malone.
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If nuclear war broke out where's the safest place on Earth?
Nuclear tensions appear to be mounting again amidst political upheaval. So if the event of nuclear war, where should you head? By Becky Alexis-Martin.
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Marie Curie, Ambulance Driver: The Trailblazing Scientist’s Little-Known Humanitarian Heroism and Her Life-Saving Mobile X-Ray Units
How the first woman to win the Nobel Prize and her brilliant teenage daughter set out to mend the ugliness of war with ingenuity and sheer human courage.
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The Private Heisenberg and the Absent Bomb
When they were separated by Heisenberg’s scientific travels or the war itself, Elisabeth and Werner exchanged more than three hundred letters that survived the fighting. Both later wrote accounts of the war years, but their letters, filled with the worries and hopes of ordinary family life, offer a quieter, more intimate picture of the years when Heisenberg ran the program that was going nowhere. Husband and wife both knew that the German secret police were free to open and read their letters at will, and tried to avoid dangerous ground. By Thomas Powers.
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Fukushima nuclear decommission, compensation costs to almost double: media
Japan’s trade ministry has almost doubled the estimated cost of compensation for the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster and decommissioning of the damaged Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant to more than 20 trillion yen ($177.51 billion), the Nikkei business daily reported on Sunday. By Osamu Tsukimori.
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Davy Crockett: King of the Atomic Frontier
On 17 July 1962, a caravan of scientists, military men, and dignitaries crossed the remote desert of southern Nevada to witness an historic event. Among the crowd were VIPs such as Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and presidential adviser General Maxwell D. Taylor who had come to observe the “Little Feller I” test shot, the final phase of Operation Sunbeam… By Alan Bellows.
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1990s Doomsday Planners Worried About Feminists Breaching Nuclear Waste Sites
They also feared treasure hunters and the secession of New Mexico. By Cara Giaimo.
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Scientists Have Detected A Crack In Earth’s Magnetic Shield
“This vulnerability can occur when magnetised plasma from the Sun deforms Earth’s magnetic field, stretching its shape at the poles and diminishing its ability to deflect charged particles,” Katherine Wright explains on the American Physical Society website.
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The pyramid at the end of the world
In rural North Dakota, the long shadow cast by nuclear weapons and the Cold War is not as far in the past as we might like to think. By Elmo Keep.
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Ending the World, For Science!
Should We Start Regulating 'Ultra-Hazardous' Research That Has the Potential to Destroy Us?
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The Female Spy Who Kept Uranium Out of the Nazis’ Hands
Shirley Chidsey’s love of travel and adventure helped land her in the Congo during World War II, when as an OSS operative she helped the U.S. hoard precious uranium. By Susan Williams.
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Latour: rethinking ecological crisis from the ground down
In the title for one of his Tokyo lectures, Latour refers to this global ecological crisis as a “new climatic regime,” although elsewhere, it has become more commonly known as the Anthropocene: a proposed epoch that, as the etymology of its title suggests, points to the significant global impact that human activities have had on the Earth’s geology and ecosystems as the definitive characteristic of our current era. By Mike Sunda.
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Radio War Nerd, Episode #44 — Nukes
Reposting our fascinating and interview with physicist Sunil Sainis in Boston, who has spent much of his life growing up around the world of nuclear weapons, nuclear proliferation, and nuclear physics...
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