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How The Radium Girls Influenced Worker Safety In The Manhattan Project

Radium Girls

June 9, 2017 – The book “Radium Girls: The Dark Story Of America’s Shining Women” tells the story of the women employed to paint watches and clocks with radium-based paint, starting in World War I. At the time radium was considered a miracle element that many touted would improve health. These women became the first…

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Episode 737 | The Wives of Los Alamos – Web Extra

NMiF Producer Megan Kamerick continues her conversation with author TaraShea Nesbit about how she became interested in writing a novel, “The Wives of Los Alamos,” about the women married to the scientists who built the first atomic bomb. They also talk about the relationships among the wives, and the female scientists who worked at Los…

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