[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, HEALTH: Manhattan Project workers at Joslyn Manufacturing , Ft. Wayne, IN

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Radiation workers sought by program
May be compensated if Cold War-era job involved uranium

Dan Stockman
Ft. Wayne Journal Gazette (IN)
March 11, 2012

FORT WAYNE - The work lasted only eight years, but the effects  
scarred a generation for decades.

In 1944, the Joslyn Manufacturing and Supply Co. in Fort Wayne began  
work on a contract with the Manhattan Engineering District to turn  
short, stubby chunks of uranium into long rods. Those rods would help  
fuel atomic bombs, make America the world’s first superpower and  
begin the Cold War, a nuclear standoff that lasted for the next half- 
century.

The workers at Joslyn - certainly until Aug. 6, 1945, when the top- 
secret Manhattan Project was revealed to the world in an atomic flash  
- most likely had little idea what they were handling.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20120311/LOCAL10/303119961

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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