Wiltshire Council knew about radioactive contamination at a former military base in January - but did nothing to alert the public.

Soon enough, girls at the factory start dying as a result of radium exposure. Arthur Roeder (Matthew Boehm) the president of the U.S. Radium Corporation is on the other side of the fight against ...

Telling stories begins by looking in your own backyard. For the past 12 years, Shakesperience in Waterbury has been ferreting out these tales and transforming them into art. This year, the weeklong ...

Marie Curie worked with radioactive material with her bare hands. More than 100 years later, Sophie Hardach travels to Paris ...

A ruthless foe of women’s suffrage, Wilson worked overtly and covertly to block a constitutional amendment granting women the ...

The Burton Leavitt Theatre will transform into the 1920s when “Radium Girls” takes the stage for its first performance Friday. The play, written by D.W. Gregory, tells the story of Grace Fryer, a dial ...

We follow the girls as they discover the effect from radium poisoning and fight for their day in court against their former employer. Their courage paved the way for the rights of workers and ...

Last week Eben Byers died in Manhattan of radium poisoning. His close friend Mrs. Mary F. Hill of Pittsburgh died last autumn of the same cause. Other of his friends are gravely worried.

“The health effects of radium are associated with chronic or long-term exposure.” Using radium-based paint to manufacture luminous watch dials and hands by the Silbert Watch Co. in Elgin ...

The film, with the working title "Voices from the Dark," focuses on the lives of the women, many of whom died of radium poisoning in years and decades after working at the factory. She seeks to ...

Tragically, many of the dial painters died from radium poisoning, but their efforts pushed the government to introduce safety standards. These standards were also applied to plutonium as the ...