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Atomic Homefront
2017 · Film · documentary · 100 min
Directed by Rebecca Cammisa
Revealing St. Louis, Missouri's atomic past as a uranium processing center for the atomic bomb and the governmental and corporate negligence that lead to the illegal dumping of Manhattan Project radioactive waste throughout North County neighborhoods.
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St. Louisan here, we sure had plenty of it for them to study. It remains a problem to this day.
Watch the documentary Atomic Homefront to see for yourself. Just a few miles from the STL airport, radioactive waste from the Manhattan project remains buried in a landfill where an underground fire has been burning for years. People living near a creek in that area have had wildly high rates of diseases associated with exposure, yet the EPA and Army Corps of Engineers claim it's no big deal.
There is a recent HBO Documentary about this landfill called Atomic Homefront https://www.atomichomefront.film/about/
The government also sprayed (possibly radioactive) chemicals on low income areas of St Louis during Cold War https://www.cbsnews.com/news/secret-cold-war-tests-in-st-louis-cause-worry/
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/suit-filed-over-government-test-spraying-in-st-louis-during/article_9bc1fc7d-7093-58a3-b557-0cbac5dc38ab.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-GK_OOjYEw
Lookup Operation LAC (this is one reason we have chem-trail conspiracies)
On the other end of St Louis they had to remove an entire city in one of the worst ecological disasters in the USA Dioxin Times Beach, MO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Times_Beach,_Missouri
https://www.stlmag.com/Remember-Times-Beach-The-Dioxin-Disaster-30-Years-Later/
One of my teachers from St Louis worked for a major chemical company there that made some really dangerous products. He claimed for extra money they paid employees $20 a barrel to put barrels in their cars & dump them in the river or elsewhere, during your commute back home. He died rather young of cancer.
While governments & the war machine played a major role in many ecological disasters & toxic & radioactive disasters, perhaps as the reason for the initial production, for-profit companies have their hands in the R&D, the production, the distribution & allegedly safe removal & storage. After these companies split up the profits between executives & investors, they usually go through a series of paper sales or just shut down to protect the beneficiaries from legal liability. The problems are then outsourced to the government and the taxpayers pay millions or billions for the cleanup and litigation. Sometimes the "efficiencies of the free market" have an enormous hidden price tag.