Bailey began with radium pills and his hyped promise ... The arrival of the atom bomb in 1945 finally ended any idea that radiation might be healthy — or harmless. After half a century ...

Radium has been detected near the site at slightly ... St. Louis was pivotal to the development of the world’s first atomic bomb in the 1940s. Uranium refined in downtown was used in experiments ...

Mount Kisco's relationship to the atomic bomb began in the 1940s ... started a New York City-based company called Canadian Radium and Uranium Corporation, after the spread of WWII into Europe ...

IT may be recalled that the Radium Committee decided last year to withdraw and dismantle the four-gram radium bomb used for massive radiation at Westminster Hospital. Some doubt was expressed at ...

Radium Age sci-fi is both wised-up and idealistic. To appreciate these novels, you have to reverse-engineer their historical context and realize that the bomb had not yet dropped and the Soviet ...

In the 1930s and ’40s, scientists began studying radium because of its similarity to a different chemical element: plutonium, which was used in the atomic bomb. Argonne National Laboratory in ...

It was a time, during the first decades of the 20th century, when radium was considered a miraculous medical cure-all, routinely added to consumer products from cosmetics to patent-medicine pick ...