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.

For decades, both former and current residents from approximately 90 municipalities in the Missouri city were diagnosed with a long list of life-threatening illnesses, including leukemia, lupus, brain tumours, appendix cancer, multiple sclerosis, birth defects and many more. People died. Babies died. And they’re still dying to this day, dubbed “the poison children of Coldwater Creek.” But no one ever connected the dots as to what was really making these innocent people sick.

“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.