004 - Doomtown Mannequins

It's da bomb. Shan and Jaybee launch into the nuclear age, learning all about the Nevada Test Site and the development of radioactive technology, and how it relates to a host of irradiated mannequins of the National Museum of Atomic Testing. Learn about all the weird ways people used to ingest radium! Atomize Vegans! Bleeding earballs! And the tragic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the powerful design of the Hiroshima Peace Pavilion. 

It's a party mix of laughter, deep, deep horror, and sadness, on this week's Curio.

 

Resources: 

http://www.westmuse.org/sites/westmuse.org/files/documents/WMA2014/Sessions/WMA2014_CollectionsThatKill-Notes.pdf

 

https://www.archaeology.org/issues/152-1411/features/2594-united-states-atomic-age-doom-town

 

http://time.com/3675016/nevada-a-bomb-test/

http://www.businessinsider.com/operation-doorstep-photos-2016-3#this-group-of-mannequins-is-hiding-under-the-stairs-in-a-basement-likely-to-test-if-this-was-an-effective-strategy-6

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/sep/21/building-the-atom-bomb-the-full-story-of-the-nevada-test-site

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada_Test_Site#Areas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury,_Nevada

 

http://www.dark-tourism.com/index.php/15-countries/individual-chapters/758-nevada-nuclear-test-site

https://www.globalzero.org/blog/how-many-nukes-would-it-take-render-earth-uninhabitable

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_technology

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irradiated_mail

 

https://www.mirion.com/introduction-to-radiation-safety/the-history-of-radiation/

 

http://mentalfloss.com/article/12732/9-ways-people-used-radium-we-understood-risks

 

https://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2004-08/healthy-glow-drink-radiation

 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18940506

 

https://geoscience.ucalgary.ca/tamaratt-chair/files/tamaratt-chair/death-by-numbers_the-mysterious-illness-of-the-dial-painters.pdf

 

https://www.news-medical.net/health/Radiation-Poisoning-History.aspx

 

http://nationalatomictestingmuseum.org/

 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/many-nukes-world-could-destroy/

 

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20170422/p2a/00m/0na/010000c