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• Strange Glow

  the Story of Radiation

  Jorgensen, Timothy J.

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  This introduction to two centuries of history primes readers to understand the modern risks and realities of radiation exposure. Starting with pioneering scientists like Roentgen and Curie, Timothy Jordensen draws a line to contemporary issues like…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Radiation

  What It Is, What You Need to Know

  Gale, Robert Peter

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  Robert Gale, the world’s leading researcher on radiation describes what the friendly atom actually is and does. Breaking down basic nuclear physics, and exploiting the health outcomes and uses of radiation, Gale demystifies the invisible and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Marie Curie

  a Biography

  Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey

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  Perhaps the most famous woman in STEM, Marie Curie’s contribution to nuclear science and the study of radiation can not be understated. Her research on radium earned her two nobel prizes, but cost her life. To date, her body and her research papers…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Radioactive: A timeline of MU's Pickard Hall, from creation to proposed demolition

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  Columbia’s own irradiated claim to fame was Pickard Hall on the Francis Quadrangle at the University of Missouri. The building, erected in 1892, hosted Herman Schlundt’s radium experiments, centering the ensuing radiation in the basement. While…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Radium Girls

  the Dark Story of America's Shining Women

  Moore, Kate (Writer and editor)

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  What seemed like a prime job painting the faces of glowing watches became a nightmare for the young women working at three watch factories in the United States. Mostly immigrants and single women, the girls wet the “undark” radium paint on their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Emperor of All Maladies

  a Biography of Cancer

  Mukherjee, Siddhartha

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  The yin and yang of radiation is the ability to both cause and cure cancers. Since the 1890s scientists have noted radiation’s ability to curtail tumor growth. Only later, would epidemiological studies discover how the same power to stop…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Girls of Atomic City

  the Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II

  Kiernan, Denise

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  Across the country, workers took up mysterious jobs in secret cities, not on any maps. One such group were the women workers of Oak Ridge Tennessee. As their fathers and husbands fought overseas, they unknowingly enriched uranium for a bomb of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Spies in the Congo

  America's Atomic Mission in World War II

  Williams, A. Susan

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  While there are now domestic uranium mines in the United States, the ore used in the Atomic Bombs came from the Shinkolobwe Mine in the Belgian Congo. To covertly move the ore across the Atlantic, several spies, and countless Congolese Miners, were…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hiroshima, Nagasaki

  the Real Story of the Atomic Bombings and Their Aftermath

  Ham, Paul

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  Paul Ham’s incisive history of the Atomic Bomb argues that their use was an unnecessary exercise in the United States' newfound military preeminence. His detailed history of both the development of the bomb and the material conditions of Japan…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Nagasaki

  the Last Witnesses

  Sheftall, M. G. (Mordecai G.),

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  The second in a two part series, this collection of oral histories preserves the testimonies of the last surviving Hibakusha - or atomic bomb survivors. Eighty years out from the bombing, few are left to remember, but the heart wrenching and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hiroshima

  Hersey, John, 1914-1993

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  This classic work of nonfiction collects the accounts from six survivors of the Atomic bombing of Hiroshima. This narrative history of the disaster was the first English language coverage of the bomb's effects, printed originally as the entire…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fallout

  the Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World

  Blume, Lesley M. M.

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  This biography describes the personal experiences and life of John Hersey, the first American Journalist to describe the effects of the atomic bomb. While his reporting is now considered iconic, it came only after suppression from the United States,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Nuked

  Echoes of the Hiroshima Bomb in St. Louis

  Morice, Linda C.,

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  About two hours away from us, the uranium used for the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were refined. The waste from these processes remains with us, stored outside of the airport and leaching into the coldwater creek. Research has…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Plutopia

  Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters

  Brown, Kate (Kathryn L.)

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  This Cold War Tale of Two Cities describes the American and Soviet sealed cities that produced and refined Plutonium. What was meant to be secured and prosperous leaps into the future produced devastating environmental contamination, rampant…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mayak's walking wounded.

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  Scientist Vladislav Larin visits the city of Ozersk, the site of the Kyshtym disaster at the Mayak plutonium processing plant. He interviews townspeople who staffed that plant which would spread radioactive waste far and wide, making Lake Karachay…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Radioactive

  the Women of Three Mile Island

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  The Three Mile Island nuclear plant disaster was the second largest release of radioactive material in United States history. In the disaster’s wake, The Concerned Mothers of Three Mile Island began advocating for their affected, evacuated, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Church Rock Uranium Mine Disaster

  Knutson, Julie

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  If Three Mile Island was not the largest American nuclear disaster, what was? In July of 1979 a dam break at the Church Rock Uranium Mine contaminated a large swath of the Navajo Nation and the Puerco River. Many people were burned by the radiation,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Midnight in Chernobyl

  the Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

  Higginbotham, Adam

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  Investigating the real details of the explosion and its aftermath, Adam Higginbotham reconstructs the real timeline of the world’s worst nuclear disaster by the testimony of those who saw it. The thrillingly brisk pace creates a history book more…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Voices From Chernobyl

  Aleksievich, Svetlana

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  Nobel Laureate Svetlana Aleksievich curates a collection of oral histories from those who lived in and liquidated the exclusion zone. This gutting, deeply personal meditation on the long half life of disaster later informed much of the HBO…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Chernobyl

  a 5-part Miniseries

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  This limited series from HBO dramatizes the events and political fallout of the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster. The series won multiple Emmy’s,BAFTAs, and Golden Globe Awards.