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RESIDENTS IN ST LOUIS DYING IN RECORD NUMBERS FROM WORLD WAR II RADIOACTIVE WASTE
October 28, 2015 11:23am
Atomic bomb mushroom clouds over Hiroshima (left) and Nagasaki (right). Residents in St Louis, Missouri, are still suffering from the affects of the radioactive waste left over by the bomb preparations today.
In 2011, residents across an American community in St Louis began to notice a chain of inexplicably high incidents of cancer and disease across its population.
“You’ll never forget the moment they tell you, ‘We found lesions on your lung and your liver,’” Mary Oscko, who has stage 4 lung cancer, told CBS News. “My husband and I had to sit down at night and discuss whether I want to be cremated or buried. I don’t want to be buried in North County, that’s the one thing I told him — I do not want to be buried where this soil is.”
In 1942, during the height of World War II, a corporation by the name of Mallinckrodt Chemical Works was hired by the US government to process uranium for the development of the world’s first nuclear weapons. The operation was dubbed ‘The Manhattan Project.’ Based in St Louis, it was here that the atomic bomb was born. That same bomb would be responsible for destroying Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 at the end of the Second World War. Those two bombs killed at least 150,000 people by the end of that year(without taking into account long term radiation damage). It was powerful, deadly stuff.
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