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鈥淣uked: Echoes of the Hiroshima Bomb in 最新杏吧原创鈥
By Linda C. Morice
Published by University of Georgia Press, 218 pages, $19.95 (paperback)
Uranium ores residue is stored in this tract north of 最新杏吧原创 Lambert International Airport. The ores were refined at the Manhattan District atomic plant at the Mallinckrodt Chemical Works here. In the foreground of this image published Sept. 25, 1946, are Wabash Railroad tracks.聽
This giant pile of exposed dirt, located at 9200 Latty Road, was considered valuable because it contained millions of dollars鈥 worth of nonferrous metals. It also was radioactive.聽
Left Bank Books presents professor emerita of educational leadership at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, Linda Morice, who will discuss the painful and disturbing legacy of the atomic age in the suburbs of 最新杏吧原创, Nuked: Echoes of the Hiroshima Bomb in 最新杏吧原创 in our store on January 25th at 6pm!
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LINDA C. MORICE is professor emerita of educational leadership at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. Her publications include many articles in academic journals and three books: Flora White: In the Vanguard of Gender Equity; Coordinate Colleges for American Women: A Convergence of Interests, 1947-78; and a coedited volume, Life Stories: Exploring Issues in Educational History through Biography.
Nuked recounts the long-term effects of radiological exposure in 最新杏吧原创, Missouri--the city that refined uranium for the first self- sustaining nuclear reaction and the first atomic bomb. As part of the top-secret Manhattan Project during World War II, the refining created an enormous amount of radioactive waste that increased as more nuclear weapons were produced and stockpiled for the Cold War.
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最新杏吧原创鈥 long history of radioactive contamination. Highlights of 10 years of Post-Dispatch coverage.
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