[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, FORMER SITES: "St. Louis [MO] paid a heavy price to help build an atomic bomb"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Review: St. Louis paid a heavy price to help build an atomic bomb

By Roland Klose
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MO)
January 18, 2023

In September 1957, William and Dorothy Cunningham moved their young family from Detroit to St. Louis, and nine months later into a new house in the Paddock Hills subdivision of Florissant, joining thousands of others who moved to north St. Louis County during the postwar housing boom.

William, an aerospace engineer, took a job with McDonnell Aircraft; Dorothy became active in school issues and was elected to the board of the Ferguson-Florissant School District. 

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As Morice writes in “Nuked: Echoes of the Hiroshima Bomb in St. Louis,” the common thread that appeared to link these illnesses and deaths was Coldwater Creek, the 19-mile Missouri River tributary that starts at a spring-fed lake in Overland and winds through North County, including near her family’s former Florissant home.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/books-and-literature/reviews/review-st-louis-paid-a-heavy-price-to-help-build-an-atomic-bomb/article_90244004-f178-5ee8-80a2-facab935ed92.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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