80 years later.

[robnisch]

Coldwater Creek to finally have warning signs after decades of nuclear contamination

Nuclear waste stored outside St. Louis was found to pose a risk to nearby Coldwater Creek as early as 1949. The contaminated creek will finally have warning signs almost 75 years later.

www.stlpr.org

I never heard of this place.
What a mess.
The bomb that keeps on killing.

 

[bilby]

The folks who ran the Manhattan Project weren't fully aware of the risks, which were classified and compartmentalised.

They also likely didn't care much, as they thought they were in a race with the Nazis to see who got a bomb first.

 

[robnisch]

The folks who ran the Manhattan Project weren't fully aware of the risks, which were classified and compartmentalised.

They also likely didn't care much, as they thought they were in a race with the Nazis to see who got a bomb first.

Well of course, but there were children playing in that creek well in to the 1970's.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Note: Two duplicates with no replies removed.

 

[robnisch]

Note: Two duplicates with no replies removed.

my bad.

 

[robnisch]

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/243/text

This is part of the BBB that gives the victims $50,000, $25,000 for dead people or limited health coverage.

 

[BH]

I hate to say it but if they had posted signs about pollution wouldn't that give away to spies what was probably going on in the area?

 

[Shadowy Man]

I hate to say it but if they had posted signs about pollution wouldn't that give away to spies what was probably going on in the area?

Considering there were already spies within the Manhattan Project it probably would have been ok.

 

[bilby]

I hate to say it but if they had posted signs about pollution wouldn't that give away to spies what was probably going on in the area?

Considering there were already spies within the Manhattan Project it probably would have been ok.

Perhaps, but they didn't know that at the time.

 

[Shadowy Man]

I hate to say it but if they had posted signs about pollution wouldn't that give away to spies what was probably going on in the area?

Considering there were already spies within the Manhattan Project it probably would have been ok.

Perhaps, but they didn't know that at the time.

The smartest men in the country all in one place and they didn’t know that??

 

[bilby]

I hate to say it but if they had posted signs about pollution wouldn't that give away to spies what was probably going on in the area?

Considering there were already spies within the Manhattan Project it probably would have been ok.

Perhaps, but they didn't know that at the time.

The smartest men in the country all in one place and they didn’t know that??

Well, obviously some of them did know that. Klaus Fuchs likely had an inkling...

But at the level wherein decisions about warning signs were being made, that knowledge was lacking.

The Manhattan Project had more important things for the smartest men to think about, with the security of their sites, and the protection of the wider public, generally in the purview of rather less smart men - whose understanding of the risks and hazards would have been sharply limited by their lack of a 'need-to-know'.

 

[crazyfingers]

At first I thought that this would be about the second rise of Nazism but that would be 92 years since Hitler became chancellor.