*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers removes soil contaminated with radioactive waste from the banks of Coldwater Creek, center, that ...

Several moms in suburban St. Louis have been working to get toxic sites in the area cleaned up, a major undertaking to fix widespread contamination that some government officials apparently covered up ...

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (WATE) — Wednesday marks 80 years since the Manhattan Project‘s Trinity test, and the American Nuclear Society is commemorating Oak Ridge’s role in bringing World War II to an end.

The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act has been a lifeline for some people and families exposed to toxins linked to decades-old nuclear weapons tests, but advocates say more people deserve ...

A number of social media posts in August 2025 shared a story about the civilian aftermath of America's rush to create the atomic bomb in 1945. According to the posts, a group of 13-year-old girls was ...

The Trinity test and the dozens of nuclear tests that followed were the result of the top secret Manhattan Project, the WWII era U.S. government program that focused on the development of the atomic ...

In July 1945, as J. Robert Oppenheimer and the other researchers of the Manhattan Project prepared to test their brand-new atomic bomb in a New Mexico desert, they knew relatively little about how ...

The Manhattan Project occurred between 1942 and 1946. It employed over 129,000 people at its peak and cost a total of $2 billion. The project produced the first working nuclear bombs and ushered in ...

When the first atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945, followed by a second bomb in Nagasaki three days later, the world was forever changed. Before the atomic ...