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Wreckage & Ruins

Wreckage & Ruins

著者： CC and Kitty
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Welcome to Wreckage & Ruins! Each week we investigate disasters: man-made and natural, legendary last stands, medical mishaps, and everything in between. Each of the ruins unfold into a story, and we're here to understand why it happened and what came after.CC and Kitty 世界
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  • Episode 29: Radium Girls

    Episode 29: Radium Girls
    2026/07/15

    The Radium Girls painted glowing watch dials and were instructed to point their brushes with their lips. When radium lodged in their bones, illness followed, and proving the cause became another fight. CC and Kitty trace the dial painters, the New Jersey and Illinois cases, and their lasting place in workplace-safety history.

    SOURCES:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A1chymov

    https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/themes/marie-and-pierre-curie-and-the-discovery-of-polonium-and-radium/

    https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2018-12/documents/significant_discoveries_history_radiation_protection-worksheet_rp_1.pdf

    https://www.damninteresting.com/undark-and-the-radium-girls/

    https://www.epa.gov/radiation/radiation-basics

    https://www.labxchange.org/library/items/lb:LabXchange:7004d592:html:1

    https://live-ucalgary.ucalgary.ca/sites/default/files/teams/246/death-by-numbers_the-mysterious-illness-of-the-dial-painters.pdf

    https://njwomenshistory.org/biographies/katherine-schaub/

    https://time.com/archive/6662284/medicine-poison-paintbrush/

    https://njms.rutgers.edu/departments/division_radiation/history_pub.php

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

    https://www.perspectivesofhistory.com/post/the-consumers-league-and-the-radium-girls

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

    https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm

    https://www.archives.gov/files/citizen-archivist/images/08-23-2018-radium-girls.pdf

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

    https://www.osha.gov/

    https://text-message.blogs.archives.gov/2018/01/04/the-radium-girls-at-the-national-archives/

    https://www.epa.gov/superfund/what-superfund
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    1 時間 15 分
  • Episode 28: Bhopal Gas Tragedy

    Episode 28: Bhopal Gas Tragedy
    2026/07/08
    The Bhopal gas tragedy began during the night of December 2–3, 1984, when methyl isocyanate escaped from the Union Carbide India Limited pesticide plant. The Bhopal disaster killed thousands in its immediate aftermath, exposed more than 500,000 people, and left a health and environmental crisis that still has no clean ending.CC and Kitty trace how a pesticide plant near densely populated neighborhoods came to store large quantities of MIC, the warnings raised before the leak, and the safeguards that were unavailable or ineffective as Tank 610 entered a runaway reaction. Water entered the tank, but the precise route—and Union Carbide’s later sabotage claim—remain disputed.The episode also follows the overwhelmed hospitals, contested casualty estimates, the 1989 settlement, the criminal cases, and the unfinished cleanup. In 2025, 337 metric tons of waste were incinerated, but residual material and broader site contamination remained unresolved into 2026.Subscribe to Wreckage & Ruins for weekly disaster investigations. Because death and long-term health estimates differ by source, this episode uses conservative wording and identifies disputed claims.SOURCES:https://www.bhopal.com/en-us.htmlhttps://www.britannica.com/event/Bhopal-disasterhttps://www.bhopal.net/what-happened/setting-the-stage-for-tragedy-1969-1984/timeline-events-1969-1984/https://origins.osu.edu/read/bhopal-chemical-gas-disaster#:~:text=It%20decided%20to%20build%20a,Site%20of%20Bhopal%20disaster%2C%202010.https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/green-revolution-norman-borlaug-race-to-fight-global-hunger/https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1142333/https://wwwn.cdc.gov/tsp/mmg/mmgdetails.aspx?mmgid=628&toxid=116https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Methyl-Isocyanatehttps://www.kumc.edu/school-of-medicine/academics/departments/history-and-philosophy-of-medicine/archives/wwi/essays/medicine/gas-in-the-great-war.htmlhttps://www.bhopal.org/news/the-crime-of-union-carbide-05/https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Methylaminehttps://www.nytimes.com/1984/12/12/us/1982-inspector-says-indian-plant-was-below-us-safety-standards.htmlhttps://www.unm.edu/~varma/print/BSTS_Bhopal.pdfhttps://www.nytimes.com/1985/01/30/world/the-disaster-in-bhopal-workers-recall-horror.htmlhttps://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1142333/https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/40-years-after-bhopal-toxic-gas-leak-suffering-continues/https://www.bhopal.org/continuing-disaster/the-bhopal-gas-disaster/union-carbides-disaster/#:~:text=More%20than%20120%2C000%20people%20still,poison%20the%20residents%20of%20Bhopal.https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/03/global-dows-failure-to-offer-remedy-for-the-bhopal-disaster-has-created-a-sacrifice-zone/https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgj6e1e2688ohttps://www.bbc.com/audio/play/w3ct4lywhttps://www.ihrb.org/latest/bhopal-40-years-on-lessons-for-corporate-accountabilityhttps://www.umass.edu/sts/pdfs/Bhopal_Complete.pdfhttps://www.csb.gov/csb-contracts-independent-study-on-reducing-inventory-of-toxic-methyl-isocyanate-mic-at-west-virginia-chemical-site/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/aug/29/3https://www.bbc.com/news/10267196https://online.hbs.edu/blog/post/types-of-corporate-social-responsibilityhttps://www.forbes.com/sites/hnewman/2026/03/17/meet-americas-best-brands-for-social-impact-2026/
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    58 分
  • Episode 27: Pickett's Charge

    Episode 27: Pickett's Charge
    2026/07/01

    On the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg, approximately 12,000 to 13,000 Confederate soldiers emerged from Seminary Ridge and began advancing across exposed fields toward the Union center.

    General Robert E. Lee believed a concentrated assault could break the line on Cemetery Ridge. Lieutenant General James Longstreet believed the troops could not sustain the advance. After a massive artillery bombardment, the infantry moved forward anyway.

    CC and Kitty trace the route of Pickett’s Charge, the confusion and losses across the field, Brigadier General Lewis Armistead’s brief penetration of the Union position at The Angle and the collapse that followed. Approximately 6,000 to 6,555 Confederate soldiers were killed, wounded or captured during the assault.

    They also examine Lee’s reported acceptance of responsibility, Longstreet’s complicated legacy and why the area later became known as the High Water Mark of the Confederacy.

    Listen and follow Wreckage & Ruins for weekly investigations into disasters, decisions and what came afterward.

    Sources:

    https://www.theweathernetwork.com/en/news/weather/severe/this-day-in-weather-history-july-1-1863-the-battle-of-gettysburg

    https://www.nps.gov/gett/planyourvisit/maps.htm

    https://www.battlefields.org/learn/maps/gettysburg-picketts-charge-july-3-1863

    https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/picketts-charge

    https://www.nps.gov/places/the-angle.htm

    https://npshistory.com/publications/gett/index.htm

    https://historynet.com/james-longstreet/
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    40 分
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