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How America’s push for the atomic bomb spawned radioactive waste problems in St. Louis
Associated Press
St. Louis was part of a geographically scattered national effort to build the first nuclear bomb. AP examined documents dating to the early 1950s that show radioactive material was handled at times with nonchalance and indifference.